DE Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Delaware.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 1 counted in Delaware so far.
1 ambassador organizing the count locally.
Director of Outreach
National outreach director.
Sets cross-state strategy and recruits state directors. Delaware's ambassadors report up here until a state-specific director is seated.
Iliriana Sela
Director of Outreach · National
Delaware ambassadors report to Iliriana.
Ambassadors in Delaware
Regional ambassadors on the ground.
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Özgür Şen
Regional Ambassador · Middletown
Ozgur Sen serves as the Delaware Ambassador for the National Albanian Registry and the Count Me Albanian initiative. He is a university student on the pre-dental track and is focused on connecting Albanians throughout Delaware, strengthening community ties, and helping build a more visible and engaged Albanian-American community in the state. He is also working to establish an Albanian student organization on campus and expand outreach to Albanian students, families, professionals, and local businesses. Ozgur hopes to create new connections, celebrate Albanian culture and heritage, and encourage Albanians throughout Delaware to be counted and represented through the National Albanian Registry.
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Why Delaware matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2020-2024 estimate
209
Federal count
Community estimate
836–1,045
Methodology page
On NAR today
1
From Delaware
Capture rate
0.48%
vs. ACS
As Delaware's Albanian community becomes visible in the data systems institutions actually use, the recognition story gets stronger — for bilingual-ballot petitions in jurisdictions with significant limited-English Albanian populations, for hospital interpreter staffing, for school home-language reporting, and for university heritage programs. None of these unlock automatically from a count; they come from sustained organizing on top of one. The Census ACS stays the official federal source; NAR builds the parallel community count alongside it.
Delaware ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 209 (2020-2024). Nationwide the Census counts 230,000 Albanian Americans while community estimates put us close to a million — and the same gap shows up here. NAR is the community-led parallel count that sits alongside the ACS, one self-attestation at a time.
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