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At JSM 2020, the Government Statistics Section (GSS) will again host a mentoring roundtable to encourage diverse participation and engage young professionals and students with more senior, advanced-career members of the GSS community. The session will provide an opportunity for an informal “meet and greet” between mentors and mentees, as well as organized mentor/mentee activities such as career discussions and targeted coaching. View participant and mentor feedback from the 2019 session.

2020 Mentors

David Morganstein (retired) was a vice president at Westat, where he had worked since 1976. For 35 years, he served as the director of Westat’s statistical staff (70 statisticians and survey methodologists). A senior statistician with more than 50 years of experience, his areas of expertise include the design and application of sample surveys and systems of evaluation, quality control, statistical analysis, and estimation and quantification. He is a fellow of the ASA and was ASA president in 2015.

Jeri Mulrow is a vice president and director of statistics and evaluation at Westat. She is retired from the federal government, where she served in the Senior Executive Service for the last five years of her federal career. Mulrow served as the principal deputy director at the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2016 to 2019. She is a fellow of the ASA.

Darcy Miller is a mathematical statistician working in survey research and methodology at the US Department of Agriculture and an adjunct professor at The George Washington University. She is active in the ASA and serves on the organizing committee for the International Conference on Establishment Statistics. Miller was the lead of the Census 2017 Content Team, provided assistance to GEOSTAT in the Republic of Georgia (2011–2013) through the International Programs Office, and serves as associate editor of the Journal of Official Statistics. She has also served as GSS secretary/treasurer.

Read more about the mentors.

How to Apply

Students and young professionals within five years of their degree are eligible. Mentees must be registered to attend JSM and be GSS members at the time of acceptance. To apply, provide a one-paragraph description of your career and/or research interests and one paragraph about why you are interested in participating in the GSS mentoring session. Send materials to GSS JSM Program Chair-elect Will Cecere by June 1. Space is limited; submissions may close early if capacity is reached.