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United States Census Bureau - 72nd Annual Honor Award Recipients

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Group Gold Medal – Leadership 

Stephen Buckner – Zachary Schwartz – Jennifer Shopkorn – Kristin Galemore – Lorena Molina-Irizarry

For launching the Trust & Safety team, the first in a Federal agency, dedicated to protecting the 2020 Census from misinformation and disinformation.


Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Michael Berning – Epa Uwimana – Adam Galemore – Denise Flanagan Doyle – Damon Smith – David Sheppard – Diane Cronkite – Jessica Majercik – Lori Fox – Katherine Reeves 

For meritorious service in acquiring administrative records data to determine citizenship status for each respondent to the 2020 Census.


Group Gold Medal – Leadership

Mary Catherine Potter – Melissa Scopilliti – Jill Harbison – Alessandro Rebaudengo – Theresa Maroudas Lewis – Brian Harrigan – Maria Iseman – Monica Noble – Julie Watt

For enterprise-wide leadership, innovative solutions, and resilience in redesigning and implementing security screening to enable 2020 Census operations.


Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Jerry Ray Collins – Benny R. Alvey – Adam G. Eckstein – Greg E. Ruetten – Edward Lewis Frazier – Julie K. Bibb – Logan T. Walsh – Calvin C. McFarland – Kristin Farnham-Brown – Rose E. Quintel

For personal and professional excellence exhibited in overcoming challenges to supply 248 Area Census Offices (ACOs) and 6 Regional Census Centers (RCCs) with mission-critical materials.


Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

David G. Johnston – Thu Q. Dang – Honghai V. Nguyen – Christina M. Stoehr – Bryant Turner – Laura K. Yax – Lori Carrig – Zachary Henry Schwartz – Lisa Wolfish – Terry Keyfauver

For exceptionally meritorious service in an exceptional manner, all activities associated with accelerated implementation of the 2020 Census website.


Group Gold Medal – Customer Service

Gwendolyn Williams – Jovon Drone – Estefania Rivera – Sarabeth Rodriguez – Linda Jaramillo – Takesha McDaniel – Elimar Medina Figueroa

For timely heroic care and service delivery of Critical Incident Response Services to the workforce of Puerto Rico during a natural disaster.


Group Silver Medal – Leadership

Gregory Hanks – Monique Eleby – Brian Timko – Laura Waggoner – Michael Ratcliffe – Andrea Johnson

For outstanding leadership in the development of the 2020 Census address list and geospatial data using innovative tools and techniques.


Group Silver Medal – Leadership

Amanda M. Burns – Eric M. Gray – Latonia Y. Ollyhill – Sheila Gividen

For exceptional leadership establishing, maintaining, and developing a workforce of over 500 employees to accomplish two major 2020 Census operations.


Group Silver Medal – Leadership

Zachary Whitman – Robert Chestnut – Liang-Chi (Ritchie) Wang – Shawna Orzechowski

For conceptualizing and delivering an enterprise data dissemination platform that provides data to the American public for better decision making.


Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Jesenko Kostic – Dawn Mumford – Marc Hayden – Cynthia Luttrell – Raymond Nally – Laura Clary – Karl Krider – Gloria Wales – Jennifer Simpson – Hai Nguyen

For their tireless commitment to excellence in the extensive programming, planning, and expertise sharing required to support 2020 Census operations.


Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Sneha Desai – LaShonda Simmons – Alessandro Rebaudengo – Christopher R Bitzer

For outsourcing IRS annual Affordable Care Act filings and administration for the 2020 Census workers paid through the DAPPS system.


Group Silver Medal – Scientific/Engineering Achievement

Jennifer Ortman – David Raglin – Elizabeth Poehler –Tavia Simmons – Daphney Dupervil – Dameka Reese – George Brian Wilson – Ceci Villa Ross – Gail Denby – Michael Coan

For successful execution of the 2019 Census Test to prepare for a complete and accurate count in the 2020 Census.


Group Silver Medal – Organizational Development

Joy Choudhury – David Whittington – Lawrence Malakhoff – David Peters –Terry Keyfauver – Michael Castro – Daniel Lewis – Zachary Schwartz – Beverly Harris – Michael Thieme

For establishing the Census Section 508 Program Office as a leader in Federal digital compliance for public-facing and internal information.


Group Silver Medal – Customer Service

Rebecca Hutchinson – Javier Miranda – John Haltwanger – Emin Dinlersoz – Jeff McHugh – Aidan Smith – Mason Herman – Erin Wrona – Nicole Davis

For successfully developing a new, highly utilized measure of entrepreneurial business activity to track the dynamic and evolving U.S. economy.