Experts

Linda A. Jacobsen, Ph.D., is director of Domestic Programs at the Population Reference Bureau. For more than two decades, Dr. Jacobsen has conducted analysis of population trends and their implications for professional, business, and general audiences. Her research has focused on population estimates and projections, family and household demography, and poverty and inequality. Dr. Jacobsen is a member of the Committee on Applied Demography of the Population Association of America, and the Boards of Directors of the Southern Demographic Association and the Association of Public Data Users. 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 both Cornell University and the University of Iowa, where she conducted research and taught graduate studies in sociology and demography.