Join a panel of expert pollsters for a comprehensive analysis of national polling trends in the lead up to the November 2024 election. This webinar will provide invaluable insights into the way experts interpret pre-election polls and will offer insights into a range of national and state-level polling data.

Panelists

Natalie Jackson, PhD – Vice President at GQR (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research) and former Huffington Post poll forecast director. Natalie has spent nearly two decades developing extensive expertise in survey research, methodology, and political polling. Her research on how people form opinions, as well as on the election polling and forecasting landscape has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and she has a weekly column on data politics called Leading Indicators at National Journal.

Joe Lenski – Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Exit Polls at Edison Research. Under Joe’s supervision, Edison Research currently conducts all exit polls for the major news organizations comprising the National Election Pool (NEP) – ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC. Edison Research has conducted all state and national exit polling for the NEP since 2003. Edison Research has also conducted exit polls for national elections in Iraq, Venezuela and the Republican of Georgia.

Dr. Don Levy – Director of Siena College Research Institute. Dr. Levy currently serves as the director of the Siena College Research Institute (SCRI). Dr. Levy came to Siena in August of 2007 and has been instrumental in focusing Siena’s polling not only on statewide and local politics but also on economic and social issues important to all New Yorkers. Dr. Levy founded and served for two years as the Co-Director of the Institute for Social and Community Research (ISCR) at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and prior to that as Director of Research at the Center for Population Research (CPR) at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Levy holds a Ph.D., in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and a B.A. from Yale University.

Mark Hugo Lopez, PhD – Director of Race and Ethnicity Research, Pew Research Center, where he leads planning of the Center’s research agenda focused on chronicling the diverse, ever-changing racial and ethnic landscape of the United States. He is an expert on issues of racial and ethnic identity, Latino politics and culture, the U.S. Hispanic and Asian American populations, global and domestic immigration, and the U.S. demographic landscape. Lopez was previously the Center’s director of Global Migration and Demography, and of Hispanic research. 

Moderator 

Dr. Ashley Koning – Dr. Ashley Koning is the Director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling (ECPIP), the oldest university-based statewide public polling operation in the country. Dr. Koning runs and is the face of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, manages staff, undergraduates, and graduate students to assist with day-to-day polling operations and studies, and oversees all research projects and client relations. She has been a part of ECPIP for over a decade and has spearheaded a large number of innovations within the Center during this time.

This event is co-sponsored by the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations, Rutgers Camden Alumni Association, and the Rutgers Women’s Pre-Law Society.