On the five-year anniversary of Mathematica’s On the Evidence podcast, we’re proud to feature an interview with Robert Santos, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau. Santos, the first Latino and the second person of color to lead the agency, joined Mathematica in January for a wide-ranging conversation that covered the following topics:

• changing Latinx/Hispanic population trends in the United States

• how people of Latinx/Hispanic heritage can advance in the field of public policy research

• how the Census Bureau strives to establish trust with survey respondents through culturally relevant and community-based participatory research methods

• how the Census Bureau uses artificial intelligence in its work

A full transcript of the episode is available at https://www.mathematica.org/blogs/census-bureau-director-robert-santos-culturally-relevant-methods-in-public-policy-research