Megan Kindelan
Assistant Director for Communications, U.S. Census Bureau
Megan Kindelan is the assistant director for communications at the U.S. Census Bureau.
Megan began her federal career at the Census Bureau in 2004, joining the Public Information Office and playing a key role on the strategic communications team for the 2010 Census. After nearly a decade there, she 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, Megan received the Secretary’s Distinguished Customer Service Award, recognizing her leadership and effectiveness as press lock-up administrator at the Department of Labor. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to contribute to another decennial census, she returned to the Census Bureau in 2019, where she served as senior advisor to the Associate Director for Field Operations and later as acting deputy director of the National Processing Center.
Megan is an adjunct professor for the George Washington University, where she’s been teaching courses since 2012 for students obtaining their master’s degrees in both Political Management and Public Relations and Communications. She was the sole recipient of the 2026 College of Professional Studies Faculty Excellence Award and previously received the Graduate School of Political Management Adjunct Professor of the Year Award in 2018.
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Florida’s Honors Program with a bachelor’s degree in public relations, Megan earned her master’s degree in communications with a concentration in public and media relations from Johns Hopkins University.