Ricardo serves as a research scientist of demography at the Kinder Institute’s Houston Population Research Center. His work includes helping lead the inaugural (and soon to be annual) Houston Population Report, along with other demographic research initiatives. His peer‑reviewed publications appear in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Population Research and Policy Review, Latin American Research Review, and additional journals. Ricardo holds a PhD in Applied Demography from The University of Texas at San Antonio and competed his postdoctoral training in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his research career, he worked as a demographic statistician for the U.S. Census Bureau and as a survey statistician for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.