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NPR All Things Considered Speaks with ASC Staff on 2020 Census

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NPR All Things Considered stopped by ASC to hear African Services staff opinions on the 2020 census. 

"Are people willing to answer that question given the current anti-immigrant sentiment? That I can't tell," says Mulusew Bekele, the Director of Program Operations at African Services Commitee, who is Ethiopian-American. 

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