Terri Ann Lowenthal

Terri Ann Lowenthal is a consultant specializing in issues related to the census, the federal statistical system, and the use of data for policy purposes. She was a member of the Obama Presidential Transition Team with responsibility for the Commerce Department's statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau. Ms. Lowenthal served from 1981-95 as a congressional staff aide in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and was staff director of the House Subcommittee on Census and Population for eight years, guiding the panel's oversight of the 1990 census and 2000 census planning process. Current and recent consulting projects include The Census Project; the Leadership Conference Education Fund 2010 Census Public Education Campaign; and the Funders Census Initiative. She writes the long-running Census News Briefs and contributed to the weekly Census Project Blog during the 2010 census.

Ms. Lowenthal earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and her juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the Cornell University Council and was a John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Congressional Staff Fellow in the 103rd Congress, as well as a member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. Terri Ann now lives and works in her home town of Stamford, CT, where she is also a skating director and coach at Stamford Twin Rinks.