Ditas M. Katague is the U.S. Census Bureau’s associate director for communications. She is responsible for leading the internal and external communications activities of the nation’s largest statistical agency. This includes oversight of marketing, public affairs, congressional and intergovernmental affairs, customer service, stakeholder engagement, and media relations.

Prior to joining the Census Bureau in 2022, Katague was director of the California Complete Count – Census 2020 Office, the outreach and communications campaign that worked to ensure a complete population count of historically undercounted Californians. This built on her experience leading the state’s decennial census outreach efforts in 2000 and 2010. In 2000, as chief deputy campaign director for the Governor’s Census 2000 California Complete Count campaign, Katague led a groundbreaking multilingual, multimedia outreach effort that resulted in a mail-in return rate that outpaced the national rate. She also served as chief of staff to the California Public Utilities Commission, where she improved public participation and access to the energy and telecommunications utility rate and regulation process.

Katague served on the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations, from 2012 to 2018, including three years as its chair. 

Katague is an expert in multiethnic outreach and civic engagement. Since 1998, she has served on the Sacramento Center Advisory Board for the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley.

Megan Kindelan is the assistant director for communications at the U.S. Census Bureau. Megan started at the Census Bureau in 2004 in the Public Information Office and was an instrumental member of the strategic communications team during the 2010 Census.

After nearly a decade at the Census Bureau, Megan was named communications director for the Administrative Conference of the United States and then served as the director of Public Affairs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2017, she was the sole recipient of the Secretary’s Distinguished Customer Service Award in recognition of her success at the Department of Labor as the Press Lock-up Administrator. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to be part of another decennial census, Megan returned to her roots at the Census Bureau in 2019 as a senior advisor to the Associate Director for Field Operations. Most recently, she was the acting deputy director of the National Processing Center. 

Megan is an adjunct professor for The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, where she’s been teaching courses since 2012 for students obtaining their master’s degrees in both Strategic Public Relations and Political Management. She was honored as the Graduate School of Political Management’s Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2018.

After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Florida’s Honors Program with a bachelor’s degree in public relations and a minor in political science, Megan earned her master’s degree in communications with a concentration in public and media relations from Johns Hopkins University.