Staff Spotlight: Jacquelyn Ganskopp

Jacquelyn Ganskopp

Hello! My name is Jacquelyn Ganskopp, and I am thrilled to have joined the finance team at the American Statistical Association.

I grew up on a farm in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. It was an awesome place to grow up! I went to a 12-year school and graduated in a class of 34. I went on to West Virginia University, where the class sizes were significantly larger. In May of 1983, I graduated with a degree in accounting and married my high-school sweetheart, Michael, a couple months later. We lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for about a year and a half before moving to Alexandria, Virginia, where we have lived since.

I worked for a public accounting firm in Old Town Alexandria for six years. After that, I worked for the American Moving and Storage Association (or some form thereof—there were multiple mergers) for 29 years, until its dissolution in 2021.

My brothers and I still own our father’s farms in West Virginia. The farms were protected by conservation easements long before Yellowstone was a television show. In the fall of 2021, Michael and I bought 163 acres of land adjacent to one of our family farms. We are in the process of protecting 155 of those acres with a conservation easement and planning to build a retirement home on the remainder.

I have been serving on the board of a land trust in West Virginia since 2008. The trust’s mission is to protect the forests, farms, rural heritage, and waters of the Cacapon and Lost Rivers watershed for the well-being and enjoyment of present and future generations. It is a mission near and dear to my heart.

I have a daughter in Newport News, Virginia, who is married and has two children. I have a son who just got married in September and lives in Denver, Colorado. I have an extended family of brothers and nephews and their families in West Virginia.

When I am not working, I enjoy spending time on our family farms in West Virginia. I also enjoy a type of woodworking called intarsia, which is a form of wood inlaying that results in a mosaic-like picture.