Why Is The Census So Majorly F**king Important? with Ditas Katague

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ditas Katague is currently the Director of the California Complete Count Office for the State of California. Ditas and Jonathan sit down to discuss the importance of the census, what you need to know, and dispel myths about the population count. Ditas Katague is on Twitter @ditaskatague. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Banness and every week I sit down for a 40-minute
0:06.0	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about.
0:09.8	Something that makes me curious!
0:13.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Dita Skatagi, director of the California Complete
0:17.1	Count Office for the State of California and expert in multi-ethnic outreach and civil
0:21.8	engagement.
0:22.8	Today we are discussing the importance of the census, what you need to know, and dispelling
0:26.9	myths around the population counts.
0:31.2	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Banness and I'm so excited to talk about
0:35.0	a very important topic that I think really we hear people talking about it but we don't
0:39.5	know how important it is and how it is so ingrained in the constitutional fabric of our country
0:44.4	and really the importance of it.
0:46.4	And that is our good friend, the census.
0:48.9	And to talk about the census honey, we are welcoming Dita Skatagi, director of California's
0:53.2	Complete Count.
0:54.2	Welcome!
0:55.2	Thank you so much, I'm so glad to be here.
0:57.0	I'm so glad to have you here.
0:59.2	The call-bought blue of your dress is so beautiful.
1:02.2	Thank you.
1:03.2	BT Dubs, just if anyone's, my grandma always used to like to have been to my apartment so
1:07.3	that she could, if we were chatting on the phone, she could like imagine where I was sitting
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