Tasha Boone

Tasha Boone has had a career of serving the public since her early years growing up in North Carolina as a part of the Girl Scouts and 4-H Club. She joined the Peace Corps after college and served 2 years as an English Teacher in Botswana. After returning from the Peace Corps, she participated in the pilot Americorps Program in Washington, DC. and then transferred to continue domestic service by working for the Corporation for National Service. Tasha then went to work at the Washington, DC Peace Corps Recruiting Office and then later the National Peace Corps Headquarters Office where she focused on recruiting more people of color into the Peace Corps.

Tasha came to the Census Bureau in 1998 and has worked in different positions emphasizing the need to communicate effectively. For nine years she worked in the Decennial Management Division. First, she worked on the Census 2000 Marketing and Partnership Program and then went to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as the Census Advisor for a year. She was later a co-coordinator of the 2005 Census Test, chief of the Outreach and Promotion branch, and then chief of the 2010 Planning and Coordination branch. In 2007, Tasha came to the Communications Directorate and started working in the Census 2010 Publicity Office as chief of the Communication and Coordination branch, and later became the Assistant Office Chief to help plan and implement the Integrated Communications Campaign Contract for the 2010 Census. Tasha currently works as Assistant to the Associate Director for Communications, Steve Jost. In this capacity, she helps implement many activities across the communications directorate, particularly, in areas of strategic planning, budget, contract management, and research.

Tasha Boone received a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, a MBA with an emphasis in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University, as well as a Master’s certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

Tasha resides in Maryland with her husband and 2 dogs. In her spare time, she volunteers with a local Girl Scout Troop. Tasha has travelled to 8 different countries in Africa and enjoys reading science fiction and collecting X-Men comic books.