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Roderick J. Harrison

Senior Research Scientist at Howard University, and a Senior Research Fellow within the Civic Engagement and Governance department at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Roderick J. Harrison is a Senior Research Scientist at Howard University, and a Senior Research Fellow within the Civic Engagement and Governance department at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He is also the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations. Previously, he served as chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch where he helped to expand the content and number of the Bureau's publications and releases on racial and ethnic populations.