Linda Jacobsen

Linda Jacobsen is vice president of Domestic Programs at PRB. She is a demographer with more than 25 years of experience analyzing U.S. population trends and their implications. She is co-author of PRB's recent Population Bulletin, "U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000," and has been a featured speaker on U.S. demographic trends at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and at Harvard University’s Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress. She has also been interviewed on NBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR, as well as by many newspapers. She has extensive research experience with the American Community Survey (ACS) and co-authored two of the U.S. Census Bureau's handbooks for understanding and using ACS data. Jacobsen is chair of the Government and Public Affairs Committee of the Population Association of America, and a member of the board of directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.

Before joining PRB, she was a senior executive and chief demographer for two leading marketing information companies; the research director at American Demographics magazine; and a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.