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Guadalupe, San Marcos, Texas 78666 | 877.732.6667 76th Annual Conference Table of Contents Message from the Conference Chairs 4 Schedule of Events 37 – 39 About AAPOR and AAPOR Conduct Policy Preamble 5 Monday, May 3 2021 Virtual Conference Platform and Short Courses 1 and 2 40 Interactive Schedule 5 Tuesday, May 4 AAPOR’s Commitment to Inclusion and Equity 6 Short Courses 3 and 4 41 2021 Webinar Series 7 Wednesday, May 5 Conference Highlights 8 – 11 Short Courses 5 and 6 42 Conference Engagement Opportunities 12 Thursday, May 6 Short Courses 7 and 8 43 Committee Meetings 13 AAPOR Executive Council 14 – 16 Monday, May 10 Chapter Presidents 17 Monday-at-a-Glance 44 Executive Office Staff 17 Tuesday, May 11 Past Presidents 18 Tuesday-at-a-Glance 44 – 47 AAPOR History 19 Tuesday Schedule of Events 48 – 61 Honorary Lifetime Members 20 Wednesday, May 12 Wednesday-at-a-Glance 62 – 65 AAPOR Donors 21 Wednesday Schedule of Events 66 – 82 Committees and Task Forces 22 – 29 Thursday, May 13 Award Winners 30 – 33 Thursday-at-a-Glance 83 – 85 AAPOR Conference Sponsors 34 – 36 Thursday Schedule of Events 86 – 105 Advertiser Index 36 Friday, May 14 Friday-at-a-Glance 106 – 107 Friday Schedule of Events 108 – 121 AAPOR Advertisements 122 – 126 Index 127 – 135 Save the Date – AAPOR Future Conferences 136 www.aapor.org #aapor 3 76th Annual Conference th Welcome to virtual AAPOR 2021! We appreciate your participation and contributions at 76 Annual this premier event for public opinion and survey research professionals. Conference We are convening virtually for the second year in a row. Thanks to your feedback and Data Collection, comments from the 2020 virtual conference, we have worked diligently to implement improvements for 2021, including selecting a new virtual conference platform and Measurement, and building in many opportunities for conversations and networking across all days of the Public Opinion conference. We have a mix of over 500 live presentations and prerecorded sessions with live Q&A for each prerecorded session, allowing AAPORites to connect in real During a Pandemic time, as well viewing presentations at your convenience before, during, and after the conference. Our theme, Data Collection, Measurement, and Public Opinion During a Pandemic, reflects how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic upended data collection and public opinion research in unprecedented ways. As the world faced challenges to public health and safety, many survey organizations, federal statistical agencies, and public opinion researchers had to immediately pivot to a “new normal” of data collection, develop new survey questions to understand new and emerging social, economic, and health-related phenomena, and collect measurements on a scale – both time and geographic – like never before. All of this took place around the 2020 Presidential Election (and its aftermath) and while the 2020 Decennial Census was being collected and processed. We have implemented a mini-conference dedicated to our conference theme to understand how the pandemic has affected our work and our society. There are four mini-conference sessions in each time slot across all four days of the conference, crossing all of the conference tracks, with live and prerecorded sessions. From new data collection approaches and solutions, changes in response rates, impacts of the pandemic on Census Bureau surveys, understanding attitudes toward equity and inclusion, the COVID-19 vaccine, and health care access, and understanding partisanship and participation in the election, our mini-conference sessions address a broad set of topics. Other must-see conference highlights include: • A kickoff plenary session on Polling the Electorate During a Pandemic in which speakers will highlight the what we learned about the 2020 US election and polling; • A closing plenary session, kicking off the inaugural AAPOR Award Lecture, featuring the winners of the 2020 and 2021 AAPOR Awards for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement; • Reports from two AAPOR Task Forces, including the AAPOR Task Force Report on the Performance of 2020 Pre-Election Polls and results of the AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force on Quality in Comparative Surveys; and • Ample opportunities to connect with AAPOR’s Affinity Groups, Chapters, and newer members. Wherever you are joining us – from your living room, home office, backyard, or actual office – we are so glad that you are engaging and connecting with AAPOR! Kristen Olson Darby Steiger Conference Chair Associate Conference Chair 4 www.aapor.org #aapor About AAPOR AAPOR Conduct Policy Preamble As a professional association, AAPOR fully supports and values our members Founded in 1947, the having collegial interactions that yield interpersonal connections, as well American Association for as intellectual outcomes: discussions, differing viewpoints, and scientific debates. Our events and activities are held in the spirit of free inquiry and free Public Opinion Research is expression, which is important and necessary for advancing the science and the leading association of practice of public opinion research. We pride ourselves on our professionalism and our respect for others. public opinion and survey research professionals. AAPOR’s membership is global. Our conferences, meetings, and activities bring together people from around the world, and from many different cultures. As such, we need to be sensitive to cultural contexts that vary not The AAPOR community only among regions of the USA, but also among regions of the world. We must also be sensitive to legacies that have produced discriminatory and prejudicial includes producers and users beliefs and practices, which threaten AAPOR’s coveted inclusive environment. of survey data from a variety AAPOR is committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for of disciplines. Our members everyone attending or associated with our events and activities including span a range of interests AAPOR members, guests, staff, vendors, exhibitors, contractors, as well as venue staff. We are committed to providing an environment that is free from including election polling, harassment and discrimination, whether sexual or otherwise, based on age, market research, statistics, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, language, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, disability, health, socioeconomic status, marital status, research methodology, health domestic status, or parental status. Harassment and discrimination undermine related data collection and the principles of equality and respect, and are serious forms of professional misconduct. AAPOR’s full conduct policy is available on . AAPOR education. Membership our website members who violate this policy will be subject to discipline. in AAPOR is all about opportunity – the opportunity to learn from a diverse group of leaders in the survey and 2021 Virtual Conference Platform and public opinion research field, Interactive Schedule the opportunity to network The AAPOR 2021 Virtual Conference can be accessed through the and exchange knowledge and Conference Platform (Pathable) on a web browser. The conference platform works best when viewed on a desktop or laptop rather than a mobile device. the opportunity to improve Conference registrants will log in to attend research sessions, short courses, how survey research is and committee meetings, take part in Conference events, connect with other attendees on the conference platform, and connect with Exhibitors and conducted and disseminated. Sponsors in the Virtual Exhibit Hall. This year’s conference features a mini- conference on Data