Brittany Rico is a survey statistician in the Racial Statistics Branch in the Census Bureau’s Population Division, where she is currently analyzing race data from the 2020 Census, 2020 Island Areas Censuses, and the American Community Survey. She serves as a subject matter expert on race in the United States.

Brittany joined the Census Bureau in 2016 as an intern in the Fertility and Family Statistics Branch. She began her career as a survey statistician in the same branch a year later and moved to the Racial Statistics Branch in 2019.  

Brittany is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology from Texas A&M University – College Station, with a focus on race and demography in the United States. She earned a master’s degree in sociology from Texas A&M and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas.