 On February 5, 2011, NiLP held a "Northeast Latino Redistricting Meeting" that attracted over 100 Latino voting rights advocates from Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.The purpose of the regional meeting was to promote Latino participation in the redistricting process and provide legal, technical and other information on the process.On April 21, 2011, NiLP convened a meeting between the Director of the US Census, Robert Groves, and national Latino organizations of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) to discuss Latino participation in the planning of the 2020 Census and in addressing the persistent problem of Latino underrepresetnation in the Census Bureau's work force (currently making up only 6 percent of the total).