Welcoming Dr. Portia Hemphill to the HUD’s AHS Team!

HUD is pleased to welcome Dr. Portia Hemphill to the AHS team in the Division of Housing and Demographic Analysis. Dr. Hemphill brings a wealth of survey experience, particularly in designing questions for hard-to-survey populations. Dr. Hemphill has been with the HUD for 5 years, impacting efforts to streamline inter-agency coordination for several highly visible community development initiatives. She is recognized for her work on several HUD projects concerning data analyses and process restructuring.

Dr. Hemphill is a first-generation college graduate, and a proud alumna of Chicago Public Schools, Wesleyan University, and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Dr. Hemphill is a Bill Gates Millennium Scholar who earned honors in government and African-American studies, becoming the first African-American woman at Wesleyan to do so.

In her free time, Dr. Hemphill enjoys poetry, well-placed humor, pop culture and politics, “fun” research, cooking, wide-ranging visual and musical art forms, and seeking out new restaurants in quest of satisfying her shameless foodie ways.