Chris Dick received his MA in sociology from Washington State University and is ABD in Sociology from North Carolina State University. Chris began his career working at the United States Census Bureau as a demographer working on the population estimates for the cities, towns, and counties in the United States and rose up to being the Branch Chief in charge of estimates research as well as the population projections that are developed at the Census Bureau. During this time, Chris also spent a short stint working at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services developing projections of immigration for workforce modeling and site placement for USCIS staff and buildings. Before founding Demographic Analytics Advisors, Chris ran the government practice of Civis Analytics, where he worked with local, state, and federal government clients to better develop models about, understand, and reach out to their constituents. As the founder of Demographic Analytics Advisors, Chris provides demographic expertise and methodological rigor to clients in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Chris is a former board member of the Federal Forecasters Consortium and a member of numerous professional organizations in the field of demography and population studies.
Dr. Prevost received his PhD in demography from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he also started his career as the State Demographer for Ohio. From that position, Dr. Prevost moved to the United States Census Bureau to help develop and produce population estimates and projections for the United States. Dr. Prevost’s methods are still largely employed in the development of population estimates for cities, towns, counties, states and the nation to this day. Dr. Prevost also lead multiple other areas of the Census Bureau as well as serving at the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Commerce, serving as the OIG representative that oversaw the Census Bureau and other statistical agencies. Currently Dr. Prevost is a Research Professor at the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University and works with Demographic Analytics Advisors on several projects developing population estimates and projections. Ron is a recognized expert in demographic methods with membership in several professional organizations and is currently a member of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee where he focuses mostly on advising the Census Bureau on population estimates methodology.