[1] She was the granddaughter of Baptist minister and theological scholar Conrad Henry Moehlman.
[5] She studied political science as an undergraduate at the University of Rochester,[3] graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 1963.
[5] Her father was on the faculty of the U of R Medical School, and numerous relatives were graduates, including both her parents, her late husband, Joseph F. Citro (1941-2020), whom she married on June 19, 1965, and their son, Jeremy F.
[1] She went to Yale University for a master's degree and Ph.D. in political science, studying under James David Barber.
[7] She won the 1997 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, for contributions including directing panel studies on poverty measurement, microsimulation for social welfare programs, and the 1990 and 2000 censuses.