On Friday, Sept. 20, the department of Student Life and the Center for Social Innovation held the first of many informational meetings pertaining to the upcoming 2020 Census. It was open to all UCR students and organizations. The meeting highlighted how important filling out the census is in hard-to-count areas like Riverside, and how college students make up a huge part of this demographic. This meeting featured two panelists, Sky Allen from Inland Empowerment, a coalition of community organizations whose focus is on increasing civic engagement in the Inland Empire, and Adan Chavez from The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) that strives for full Latino participation in the American political process.

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