Ditas Katague

Ditas Katague is currently the Director of the California Complete Count – Census 2020 for the State of California, a position she was appointed to by Governor Brown. She also serves as the Chair of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Race, Ethnicities and Other Populations which advises the Census Bureau on a wide range of variables that affect the cost, accuracy and implementation of its programs and surveys. She also served as the Director of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Census 2010 project. 

In 2000, as Chief Deputy Campaign Director for the Governor’s Census 2000 California Complete Count campaign, she led a groundbreaking multi-lingual, multi-media outreach effort that resulted in a mail-in return rate that outpaced the entire nation.  She is an expert in multi-ethnic outreach and civic engagement. 

Ditas most recently served as Chief of Staff to the California Public Utilities Commissioner Catherine Sandoval where she improved public participation and access to the energy and telecommunications utility rate and regulation process. Since 1998, she has served on the Advisory Board for the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.