 In 2008, he was appointed by the U.S. Commerce Secretary to the 9-member Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population of the Census Bureau's Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees (REAC) program.In 2009 he was elected Chair of both the Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population and of the Steering Committee of the Census Information Centers Program.In 2006, Falcón created the Latino Policy Network (currently called The NiLP Network) to diffuse policy and political information of importance to the Latino community online.