Pacific Islanders are hard to count… and other census myths

There have been three censuses in my lifetime, and I’ve never been counted. Not in 1990, when I was just two years old and among the nearly two million children who went uncounted that year. Not in 2000, as the daughter of then undocumented immigrants in a mixed-status family. And not in 2010, as a college student where campuses in California showed some of the lowest response rates. I have never been easy to count.* Three decades later, and I’m still a “hard to count” person in the hardest to count county in the hardest to count state. It’s only now as part of <a href="https://www.empoweredpi.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)</a> that I understand the depth of that indelible label. <a href="https://medium.com/advancing-justice-aajc/pacific-islanders-are-hard-to-count-and-other-census-myths-479060f4533">Click Here</a>