Mr. Scardamalia is a professional demographer whose career included serving as Chief Demographer for the State of New York for 22 years. As President of RLS Demographics, Inc. he has continued to provide demographic analysis for state and local governments and organizations, including work with the New York State Office for the Aging and the Albany Guardian Society, a senior services advocacy organization in Albany, NY. He specializes in the production of demographic projections, use of demographic and economic data for policy analysis and consumer marketing.

He is also the editor of Millennials in America, also published by Bernan Press.