Selected Accomplishments
of Key Williams Demographics Professionals

      —Authored more than 50 academic publications and technical reports. Taught social research methods, statistical analysis, demographic methods, and other courses to more than 3000 students in a career at NMSU.

      —Testified after considerable research, as lead expert witness in voting rights litigation in New Mexico working with several law firms and the United States Department of Justice. Results: Led to sweeping changes in election laws that dramatically increased minority access to elected office.

      —Directed the technical staff for New Mexico congressional and legislative redistricting as well as director for dozens of local governmental redistrictings after the 1990 census. Oversaw technical design, staffing, management and administration, working in a fast-paced, multi-dimensional environment with the potential for high conflict. Results: No legal challenge to any of the re-maps.

     —Developed a new methodology for surveying farm-workers in southern New Mexico in support of low income housing grants. Results: Millions of dollars of subsidized housing has been built and the United States Department of Agriculture recommends the methodology nationwide for program applications.

     —Developed household size and income enumeration methodology, staffed and managed data gathering in support of Community Development Block Grant applications for neighborhood improvements. Result: Funding has been obtained for neighborhood infrastructure improvements and federal Housing and Urban Development recommends the methodology nationwide for program applications that include primary data gathering by a local applicant.

     —Designed and managed a needs assessment for a ten county area for the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces which included management of data gathering and report preparation. Result: The Diocese estimates that the data provided the basis for more than $5 million of grant funding for programs and services.

     —Developed population projections for the U.S.-Mexico border region which have been incorporated into a multi-state project of the Environmental Protection Agency. Result: This was a critical first step in the development of quantitative models that allow local policy-makers to witness in simulations, the impacts of their decisions.

Selected Former Clients of Williams Demographics

State of New Mexico, Legislative Council Service
Eight Counties in New Mexico, nine Cities, and seven School Districts
State of New Mexico, Local Government Division
State of New Mexico, Health and Environment Department
State of New Mexico, Department of Education
Sheehan, Sheehan, and Stelzner, P.A. (attorneys)
Freedman, Boyd, and Daniels, P.A. (attorneys)
Community Action Agency of Dona Ana County
Diocese of Las Cruces
Colonias Development Council
Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation
New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority