Tasha Boone is a longtime public servant. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana and worked for AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National and Community Service before coming to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1998. 

Tasha held various positions focused on the decennial census and communications prior to being named assistant director of Decennial Census Programs in January 2024.

In 2021, she became the Census Bureau’s assistant director of communications and, before that, served as a senior advisor and chief of digital services and communications in the deputy director’s office.

Among her other roles at the Census Bureau: deputy chief of the Decennial Census Management Division; acting chief of the Decennial Communications Coordination Office; assistant division chief of communications in the American Community Survey Office; deputy chief of the 2010 Census Publicity Office; and 2000 Census advisor in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Tasha earned an MBA with a concentration in marketing from Johns Hopkins University; a master’s certificate in project management from George Washington University; and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The Department of Commerce honored her contributions to the 2010 Census by awarding her a Gold Medal for distinguished service in the federal government.