73^rd Annual Honor Award Recipients

Organizational Gold Medal – Leadership

COVID-19 Task Force

For enterprise-wide leadership and innovative solutions to ensure the health and safety of employees and the public during a world-wide pandemic.

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Deborah M. Stempowski, Jennifer W. Reichert, Michael T. Thieme, Barbara M. LoPresti, James T. Christy, Dale C. Kelly, Albert E. Fontenot Jr., Timothy P. Olson

For planning, developing and leading effective and committed teams to execute the 2020 Census during times of extraordinary change and challenges

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Jennifer Hunter Childs, Jason M. Fields, Eloise K. Parker, Jeffrey D. Sisson, Anthony G. Tersine Jr., Victoria A. Velkoff, David G. Waddington

For leadership in conceiving the Household Pulse Survey to meet a need for timely socioeconomic data during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Individual Gold Medal – Leadership

Stacey J. Jordan, Lizannette Velez, Laura A. Sewell, Ellyn J. Pollack, Kristee M. Camilletti, David E. Earles, James S. Cole Jr., Tonya L. Barbour, Amalfi Martinez, Lakisha M. Cox

For exceptional leadership in managing and executing the 2020 Census Integrated Communications Contract. (2020 ICC).

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Maria Olmedo-Malagon, Kaile H. Bower, Jennifer Costanza Shopkorn, Robin Jane Bachman, Kendall B. Johnson, Willette Allen, Misty L. Reed, Michael C. Cook, Lisa Wolfisch

For exemplary leadership, innovation, and creativity in implementing the 2020 Census Integrated Partnerships and Communications Operation.

Group Gold Medal - Leadership

Alexa K. Jones-Puthoff, Jennifer Kim, Sheila M. Szanyi, Sarah Konya, Kristen A. Hearns, Leanna M. Mayo, Francis C. McPhillips

For extraordinary leadership and resilience to provide the most comprehensive portfolio of 2020 self response options ever - online, by mail or phone.

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Amy L. Fischer, Dominic R. Beamer, Sarah Gibb, Alicia V. Green, Nhut Minh Pham Le-Ammons, Kristine Roinestad, Vincent T. Mule Jr., Rhonda Renee Cleveland, Jennifer L. Weitzel, Donna Leslie Schuler

For agility and resilience in the management of the 2020 Census Nonresponse Followup operation in a nation changed by pandemic and natural disasters.

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Julie A. Lam, Fernando E. Armstrong, Marilyn A. Sanders, Jeff T. Behler, George Grandy Jr., Cathy Lynn Lacy, John Magruder

For exemplary execution of the 2020 Census in-person data collection operations during unprecedented challenges.

Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Catherine D. Buffington, Lucia S. Foster, Carrie R. Dennis, Sumit Khaneja, Lisa Donaldson, Carol V. Caldwell, Emin Dinlersoz, Stephanie Lee Studds, James W. Hunt, Kathryn Bonney, Nick Orsini, John F. Studds

For meritorious service in the establishment of the Small Business Pulse Survey to measure the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

William Bradd, Victor Troyan, Karla L. Allen, Edison Lewark, Stephen James

For exceptionally meritorious service in an outstanding manner, in all activities associated with providing Cyber Intelligence to the 2020 Census.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Ryan W. King, Deborah A. Fenstermaker, Andrew D. Keller, Karen Battle, William K. Koerber, Colleen Hughes Keating, Derek Breese, Lauren Danielle Medina, Thomas Kirk White, Jonathan Spencer Eggleston

For quickly developing and implementing an action plan to identify and resolve unexpected anomalies in the group quarters data for the 2020 Census.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Vincent T. Mule Jr., Ryan W. King, Mary Frances Zelenak, Aneesah N. Williams, Jason E. Devine, Christine Flanagan Borman, Marc J. Perry, Matthew Spence, Jonathan S. Spader, Evan M. Brassell

For devising and implementing an unduplication strategy to ensure that the 2020 Census counted persons once, only once, and in the right place.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Shawn D. Klimek, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Jonathan Spencer Eggleston, Cristina Jazmin Tello-Trillo, Erik R. Vickstrom, Maria Jose Perez Patron, Joseph M. Staudt

For professional excellence while providing rapid response data analytics support to 2020 decennial operations in response to COVID-19 challenges.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

John F. Studds, Scott O’Neal, Mohammed Chaudhry, John Gallatin Reed Jr., Christopher Butler, Brian Ridgeway, Giuseppe Mistichelli, Robert G. Shellhouse, Tamara S. Adams, Donald E. Badrak II, Kristen A. Hearns

For engineering of the first Decennial Census Internet Self Response platform resulting in over 86 million successful online Census responses.

Group Gold Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Tamara S. Adams, John Cuffe, Samantha L. Barron, Emily Reece, Ryan T. Cecchi, Jennifer L. Weitzel, Alessandro Ferrucci, Sothiara Em, Benjamin Lamont Whitley, Alexander Shea Wooten

For advancing the science of data collection by designing revolutionary systems to optimize, control and monitor 2020 Census operations.

Group Gold Medal – Organizational Development

Gwendolyn J. Williams, Jovon Drone, Takesha C. McDaniel

For an unparalleled socio-emotional clinical response, with attention and care extended to the entire Census workforce during 2020 Census.

Group Gold Medal - Customer Service

Andrea Grace Johnson, Francis C. McPhillips, Robert E. Damario, Julie Grosman, Daniel Donello, Jeremy J. Hilts, Bao-Quan Tran Ho, Staci Jo Zalewski, Edwin J. Brightmon, Steven J. Bainter

For outstanding customer service, enabling on-line data collection without requiring the use of a Census Bureau issued ID.

Group Gold Medal – Administrative/ Technical Support

Anup Mathur, Jaya Damineni, Chad Eric Russell, Shigui Weng, Roy D. Ashley Jr., David Raymond Klingler, Hampton Wilson III, Theresa M. Toole, Ashley Denele Landreth, Brock E. Webb

For outstanding Innovation, data Stewardship and technical Performance.

Group Silver Medal – Leadership

Dexter Denis Clouden, Kimberly L. Canada, Tracy S. Newman, Rhonda Renee Cleveland, Nelson Lip Chye Er, Jay Occhiogrosso, Seantoia DeJanique Straatman, Joseph Ryan Jr., Karen C. Field

For designing, adapting, and implementing effective remote training programs to comply with COVID protocols for field operations on the 2020 Census.

Group Silver Medal – Leadership

Bethany S. DeSalvo, Gabriel H. Amaro, Wesley W. Basel, Katherine An C. Willyard, Alfred O. Gottschalck, R. Chase Sawyer

For developing Community Resilience Estimates to support community decision making on pandemic recovery and vaccine distribution.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Sharon L. Burnette, Wilson T. Gray, Richard Thornton Edwards, Emily Krutsch, Everett G. Whiteley, Kerri Givens, Jamie A. Walsh Benjamin James Page, Whitney L. Duffey-Jones, Benjamin Karl Taylor

For enabling the success of the 2020 Census by ensuring legislation and budgets supported operational changes necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

David E. Hackbarth, Frank J. Fisiorek, Joshua Steven Sanchez, Mark Emory Markovic, Sean Robert McLaren, Christopher Alan Garza, Eric Atala, Steven Ernest Angel, Lauren Ashley Withum, John W. Donnelly

For successful deployment, return and accountability of over 731,000 devices throughout the 2020 Census Program.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Jana Louise Smith Post, Thomas M. Sherman, Calvin C. McFarland, Jimmy Lee Daniels, Joseph Vincent Roazzi, Karen Nicole Hall, Allen R. Wells, Donald K. Carrow, Thomas Kenneth Szabla

For the successful acquisition, provisioning and distribution of PPE supplies to office and field personnel to safely conduct the 2020 Census.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Olajumoke Oyewole, John P. Miller, Kristin J. Stettler, Melissa A. Cidade, Alexandra Clair Abzun Cadenas, Daniel Cordes, Mary D. Mckoy, Rachel Lynn Butler, Nicole Davis, Michael Lopez Pelliccia, Philip Jarret Kanzleiter, Jeffrey Buchoff

For meritorious service in implementing the Small Business Pulse Survey to measure the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Shawn P. Barber, Casey Eggleston, Thomas File, Jessica Leigh Holzberg, David V. Hornick, Cassandra Logan, Sandra Peterson, Scott W. Raudabaugh, Hyon B. Shin, Jeffrey Stark

For the production of new Household Pulse Survey data products providing real-time insight on socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19.

Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Luis J. Cano, Barbara M. LoPresti, Kenneth W. Walker, Donald E. Badrak II, Curtis L. Broadway, John Moulton, James W. Csoka, Mark Emory Markovic, Douglas A. Curtner, Tamara S. Adams

For development of a massive, secure, cloud and on-premise computing infrastructure to support of the largest Census in U.S. history.

Group Silver Medal – Organizational Development

Phani-Kumar Atri Kalluri, Paul Krutsch, Raphael S. Corrado, Robin A. Pennington, Deanna L. Wilson, Michael J. Licavoli, James B. Lawrence, David Haskins, Lil Paul Reyes, Joan Marie Hill

For creating a high-tech fusion center to receive, analyze and share data crucial to situational awareness and decision making for the 2020 Census.

Group Silver Medal – Customer Service

Mark Emory Markovic, Justin L Mclaughlin, John W. Donnelly, Douglas A. Curtner, Brian De Vos, Kenneth W. Walker

For extraordinary execution of customer service providing mobile devices, help desk support and office IT hardware and software for the 2020 Census.