Amanda Malloy, ASA Director of Development

A Special Thank You
Nan Laird, who was honored with the International Prize in Statistics in 2021, donated her prize money to kickstart the new Telling Our Stories project that will premiere this spring. The annual stewardship report, coming out next month, will include specific examples of the programs and individuals affected by her action.

Recently, I came across an article that touched on the psychological phenomenon of “diffusion of responsibility,” in which individuals are less likely to act when in the presence of a large group of people. The theory is that, in a situation that calls for some action to be taken when many people are present, individuals may assume someone else will take the needed action and diffuse—or pass along—the responsibility to another person.

As I write this article about the many members who donated to the American Statistical Association last year and report our fundraising total, it is clear to me the ASA is made up of people who take action for the future and do not leave the responsibility to others.

As an ASA member, you are part of a community of action takers that has been around since 1839 to promote the practice and profession of statistics—a mission only growing in importance. You volunteer, you attend chapter and section events, you invest in your professional development and that of others, and you find ways to give back and encourage the next generation of action takers. And 742 of you donated in 2023.

Thank you to each one of you. Every donation, big or small, shows you are taking responsibility and making a difference. In total, approximately $354,000 was raised from corporate and individual donors. Just more than $95,000 of that was raised on ASA Giving Day, including $5,000 in matching funds from an anonymous J&J statistician and $25,000 in matching funds from the family and friends of Tom Short.

Your membership, volunteer time, and donations are instrumental in bringing us closer to our vision of a world that relies on data and statistical thinking to drive discovery and inform decisions. As statisticians and data scientists, you understand the critical nature of this vision. If we don’t take responsibility for it, then who will?

Thank you to Helen Walker Society members, who have demonstrated their commitment to the practice and profession of statistics through annual donations of $1,000 and more.

John Abowd
Stan Altan
Nan Laird and Joel Alstein
John Angle
Jana Asher
David Banks
William Brenneman
Katherine Bretzlaff
Catherine Calder
Patrick Cantwell
Constance Citro
John Czajka
Marie Davidian
Richard De Veaux
Katherine Ensor
Ronald Fecso
Christine Franklin
Turkan and John Gardenier
Martha Gardner
Eric Gibson
Richard Goldstein
Susan Halabi
Jeffrey Hooper
Nicholas Horton
Rebecca Hubbard
Fred and Karen Hulting
Ronald Iman
Barry Johnson
Lee Kaiser
Daniel Kasprzyk
Robert Ryne and Elizabeth Kelly
Arthur Kennickell
Thian Kheoh
Dennis and Eileen King
Nancy Kirkendall
Michael Kutner
Mary Kwasny
James Landwehr
Lisa LaVange
Ji-Hyun Lee
John Stites and Cynthia Long
Robert Mason
Deborah Mayo
Susan Mayo
Madhu Mazumdar
Laura Meyerson
David Morganstein
Katherine Monti
Sally Morton
Edward Mulrow
Jeri Mulrow
Anna Nevius
William Notz
Robert O’Neill
Barry Nussbaum
Leonard Oppenheimer
Van Parsons
Dionne Price
Aaron Quan
Paula Roberson
James and Gloria Rosenberger
John Sall
Fritz and Elizabeth Scheuren
John Schuenemeyer
David Scott
Larry Shen
David Short
Dolores Smith
Steven Snapinn
Theresa Utlaut
Jessica Utts
Sean Walker
Ron and Sherry Wasserstein
Hadley Wickham
Stephen Wilson
Daniela Witten
Linda Young
Richard Zink


Memorial Gifts
Gifts were made in fondest memory
of the following individuals:

Lee Abramson
Carol Blumberg
George E.P. Box
David R. Cox
Ralph B.
D’Agostino Sr.
Stephen and
Joyce Fienberg
Jane Gentleman
Harvey Goldstein
Bernard Harris
Marshall Joffe
Samuel Kotz
Toby Lewis
Yoji Mori
S. Edward Nevius
Janet Norwood
Donald A. Pierce
Jerry Sacks
Tom Short
Jacek Sulanowski
James R. Thompson
Eileen Troxel
William Fred Webber
Donald C. Weber


Tribute Gifts
Gifts were made in honor of the following:

Andrea Archer
U.K. Bhattacharya
Statistics
Without Borders
Raymond Carroll
Ruth Cassidy
Sou-Cheng Cho
Bob Fountain
Donna LaLonde
Ji-Hyun Lee
Lemmuel Moye
Edward Nevius
Barry Nussbaum
Manny Parzen
Donald Rubin
Gary Shapiro
Ron Wasserstein


ASA Program Partners ($5,000)
Merck – BIPOC Fund Partner
Two Sigma – BIPOC Fund Partner


ASA Allies ($2,500 – $4,999)
Bristol Meyers Squibb
CDC
Duke University
New York University
North Carolina State University
Proctor & Gamble
RTI


ASA Friends ($1,000)
American Institutes for Research
CREiGS
Lingzi Foundation
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
North Carolina State Institute for Advanced Analytics
SAS
University of Kansas, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science

$500 to $999

Christy Chuang-Stein
Philip Dixon
Justin Fisher
Joseph Gastwirth
Nancy Geller
Gerald Hahn
Brian Harris-Kojetin
Klaus Hinkelmann
Bimal Jain
Don Jang
Donna LaLonde
LeRoy Mattson
Peter McCullagh
Jerry Moreno
Motomi Mori
Rebecca Nichols
Keith Ord
Mark Otto
Susan Paddock
Richard Samworth
Paul Schmidbauer
Stephen Senn
Carol Thompson
Naisyin Wang

$100 to $499

Daniel Abramson
Marc Abramson
David Allison
James Anderson
Ersen Arseven
Arlene Ash
Jonathan Auerbach
Shailendra Banerjee
Mary Batcher
Heather Battey
Gerald Beck
Scarlett Bellamy
Charles Berry
Stuart Bevan
Amit Bhattacharyya
Robert Bigelow
Lynne Billard
Richard Bittman
Alexander Blocker
Dennis Boos
Claire Bowen
Michael Boyd
John Boyer
Matthew Brems
Michael Brick
William Bridges
Andrew Brown
William Browning
Jan Bruha
Joan Buenconsejo
Norman Bush
Patricia Busk
Joseph Cappelleri
Jie Chen
Yu Cheng
Siddhartha Chib
Carol Chung
Cynthia Clark
Michael Cohen
Bruce Craig
Dana Creanga
Noel Cressie
Robert Crouchley
Elizabeth Cummings
Gary Cutter
Anthony Davison
Bianca De Stavola
Paul DeLand
Chunqin Deng
Jay Devore
Norou Diawara
Cheryl Dixon
Beverly Edwards
Stephen Elston
Vern Farewell
Victor Farutin
Henry Kahn and
Laura Primakoff Charitable Fund
Cathy Furlong
Mitchell Gail
Andrew Gelman
Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar
Mark Glickman
Robert Gould
Susan Groshen
Charles Hall
Katherine Halvorsen
David Hand
Frank Harrell
Mark Harris
Xuming He
Charles Heckler
Donald Hedeker
Richard Heiberger
William Heiland
John Holcomb
Melinda Holt
Brian Horiuchi
Michael Ikeda
Peter Imrey
Lurdes Inoue
Telba Irony
Philip Iversen
Michelle Jackson
Patricia Jacobs
J. Rodney Jee
Booil Jo
John Kalbfleisch
Sarah Kalicin
Robert and Loretta Kass
Judith Kellogg
Mimi Kim
Uwe Koehn
Jesse Krijthe
Thomas Krizanosky
Daniel Lakens
Michael Lasarev
Philip Lavin
Heather Litman
Roderick Little
Michelle Lohmeyer
Ruixiao Lu
Wendy Mack
Donald Macnaughton
Jennifer Madans
Amanda Malloy
Elizabeth Mannshardt
Dennis Mar
David and Mary Marker
Wendy Martinez
Martha Maxham
Cristiana Mayer
Leslie McClure
Kenneth McRae
Joy Mele
Xiao-Li Meng
Michael Meredith
Renee Miller
George Milliken
Georges Monette
Knashawn Morales
Christopher Morrell
Ronald Mowers
Pavlos Msaouel
Arline Nakanishi
Elliott Nebenzahl
Wayne Nelson
Isaac Nuamah
David Oakes
David Olive
David Oliver
Yusuke Ono
Jean Opsomer
Herbert Pang
Sharon Passe
Roxy Peck
Jane Pendergast
Gene Pennello
Darwin Poritz
Weiliang Qiu
Ricky Rambharat
Jose Ramirez
Paul Rathouz
William Reichmann
Frank Rockhold
George Rodriguez
Harry Rosenberg
Estelle Russek-Cohen
Abdul Sankoh
Sourav Santra
Nathaniel Schenker
Christopher Schmid
Kendra Schmid
John Schoenfelder
John Schoolfield
Marilyn Seastrom
Kimberly Sellers
Richard Sigman
Joan Skurnick
Brian Sloboda
Marjolein Smith
David Smith
Edward Sondik
Rhona Souers
Aris Spanos
W. Robert Stephenson
Masahiro Takeuchi
Thaddeus Tarpey
Frank Templeton
Ronald Thisted
David Thomson
Tammy Tom
John Tomenson
Erin Twomey-Wilson
Roger Walker
Katherine Wallman
Tengyao Wang
Jane-Ling Wang
Donna Watts
Sanford Weisberg
Gideon Weiss
Brady West
Glenn White
Jean Williams
Manyu Wong
Jill Wright
Henry Wynn
Philip Yeung
Bin Yu
Steve Zimmerman

Gifts up to $99

Karim Abadir
Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam
Jason Achonu
Sarah Alvarez-Horine
Wendy Alvey
Philip Ambrosini
Dallas Anderson
Charles Anderson
Masakazu Ando
Corey Andreasen
Allison Anyim
Azuka Atum
Geraldine Baggs
John Bailer
Mark Bailey
Robert Baker
Tanou Bankole
Jarrett Barber
Anna Barón
Ronald Barry
Mary Bartholomew
Saonli Basu
Kimberly Bayard
Valbona Bejleri
Alvin Beltramo
Yoav Benjamini
L. M. Berliner
Candace Berrett
Veronica Berrocal
Andreas Betz
Ramachandran Bharath
Utpal Bhattacharya
Arinjita Bhattacharyya
John Bibby
Carol Bigelow
Sheila Bird
Todd Blessinger
Erik Bloomquist
Carol Blumberg
Cynthia Bocci
Daena Bock
Ricardo Bolado
Natascha Bolden
Norman Bradburn
Ed Brizendine
Nancy Brucken
Rebecca Buchanan
Chakra Budhathoki
Richard Burdick
Sarah Buxbaum
John Byrd
David Cantor
Cong Cao
Nancy Cartwright
Robert Carver
Vittorio Castelli
Vararat Chaiyont
Kuo-Chen Chan
Grace Chan
Hadrien Charvat
Subrata Chatterjee
Te-Ching Chen
Surya Chitra
Abhiroop Chowdhury
Zella Christensen
Nicolas Christou
Ashley Clark
Sandra Clarkson
Craig College
Katherine Condon
Joseph Conklin
Charles Contant
Margaret Copenhaver
Luis Correia
John Craycroft
Gerardo Cuenca-Nevárez
Erika Cunningham
Beth Dana
Rick Danielson
Yahya Daoud
Bern DeBacker
Shaofen Deng
Edgar Dobriban
Peter Dolan
Stephen Donaldson
Christl Donnelly
Kevin Drummey
Joel Dubin
Bonnie Dumas
Susan Durham
Will Eagan
Kirk Easley
Keith Eberhardt
Hans Engler
Ruth Etzioni
Celia Evans
Bill Fairweather
Kiya Famoye
Robert Fay
Joseph Feldman
Huaguang Feng
Wenjuan Feng
Darci Ferrer
David Firth
Samuel Fletcher
Ernest Fokoue
Richard Forshee
Garrett Frady
David Freeborn
Rongwei Fu
Erin Gabriel
Alexios Galanos
Jan Galkowski
Constantine Gatsonis
Ebenezer George
Robert Gerwien
Warren Glimpse
Cynthia Goldstein
Usha Govindarajulu
James Grady
Joseph Graves
Gerry Gray
Joel Greenhouse
Converse Griffith
Heather Groben
Mahtab Hajebi
Sylvia Halasz
Timothy Hall
James Hall
Stefan Hantel
Johanna Hardin
William Harper
Bradley Hartlaub
Matthew Haubrich
Amelia Haviland
Matt Hayat
Nathanael Heckert
Irene Helenowski
Allen Heller
Christian Hennig
Jay Herson
Rafiq Hijazi
Andrew Hill
Susan Hilsenbeck
James Himelein
David Hoaglin
Bruce Hochberg
Jessica Hoehner
Susanne Hoeppner
Antje Hoering
Merrell Hora
Mindy Hotchkiss
Isabelle Howes
Fred Huffer
Elisha Hughes
Takayuki Iguchi
Thomas Ilvento
Toyoto Iwata
Bill Iwig
Andrew Jacobs
Michael Jadoo
Peter Jaehnig
Harold Jaffe
Dae-Heung Jang
Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter
Imededdine Jerbi
Elizabeth Jewell
Ruofan Jia
Jing Jin
Lawrence Johnson
Kjell Johnson
Stuart Johnson
Monica Johnston
Jeffrey Jonkman
Naohisa Kaneda
Adam Kaplan
Jennifer Kaplan
İhsan Karabulut
Christiana Kartsonaki
Cindy Katz
Anamaria Kazanis
Scott Keith
John Kenney
David Kenny
Gregory Kent
Obafemi Keshinro
Theresa Kim
Mi-Ok Kim
John Koester
Sarah Kogut
John Koo
Karol Krotki
Lee Kucera
Brenda Kurland
Luca La Rocca
Eric Laber
Jerald Lawless
Tommy Lee
Ian Lee
Kerry Lee
Anna Legedza
Eric Leifer
Robert Leonard
Martin Lesser
Sue Leurgans
Donna Levy
Muxuan Liang
Yanzhu Lin
James Little
Lei Liu
Anthony Lonardo
Jeffrey Longmate
Charlotte Looby
Denis Lopez
Figaro Loresto
Thomas Louis
Francisco Louzada
Thomas Love
Kimberly Love
Timothy Lutz
James Lynch
Merritt Lyon
Ryan Machtmes
Carole Makela
Elizabeth Malloy
Olga Marchenko
Kanti Mardia
Elizabeth Margosches
Norman Matloff
Carole Mattis
Maureen Mayer
Charles Maynard
Kathleen McDonald-Johnson
Stephen McGuire
Richard McIlwain
Raymond McIntyre
Megan McKellar
Christopher McKinney
Phoebe McLaughlin
Neil McNinch
Lisa McShane
Grace Medley
Anne Meibohm
Robin Mejia
B. Michele Melia
Kathleen Mellars
Gustavo Mercier
Weiwen Miao
William Mietlowski
Margaret Mikula
David Miller
Jean Miller
Volodymyr Minin
Margaret Minkwitz
David Moen
Shalini Mohandas
Geert Molenberghs
Amy Morrison
Chanchal Mukherjee
Bhramar Mukherjee
Saurabh Mukhopadhyay
Simona Nallon
Charles Nam
Deborah Nasseri
Damian Ndiwago
Ronald Neath
Jennife. Nezzer
Hai Nguyen
Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj
Michael Nolte
Julia Norton
Phillip Norton
Eileen OBrien
Jaime O’Connell
Laurence O’Connell
James Odei
Christine Oehlert
Folorunso Ojo
Dapo Olaitan
Steve Olson
James O’Malley
Michelle Ouellette
Alberto Palloni
Betty Palmer
Jennifer Park
John Park
Jennifer Parker
Jennifer D. Parker
Paul Patterson
Hugh Peach
Maria-Eglee Perez Hernandez
Lori Perine
Jamis Perrett
Judith Petty
Lee Pian
Stephen Pierson
Jose Pinheiro
Paul Plummer
Robert Podolsky
Nayak Polissar
Elena Polverejan
Stanley Pounds
Karen Price
Philip Prorok
Bill Prucka
Stephanie Pugh
Jorge Quiroz
Sandra Ramirez
Ray Redd
DJ Rich
Matthew Riebel
Susan Riner
Linda Ritchie
Joyce Robbins
Rosemary Roberts
Kenneth Robertson
Edwin Robison
David Rockoff
Richard Rode
Keigan Ross
Dennis Ross
Alexandra Ruth
James Rutledge
Juan Carlos Salazar-Uribe
Susan Sanchez
Roger Sauter
Alassane Savadogo
N.J. Scheers
Alfred Schissler
Thomas Schmitt
Steven Schwager
Stanley Sclove
John Scott
Anthony Seraphin
Lynne Seymour
Denis Shah
Nagambal Shah
Babak Shahbaba
James Sharpe
Stephanie Shipp
Patrick Shrout
Satya Siddani
Pedro Silva
Arthur Silverberg
Christopher Sims
Gurbakhshash Singh
Elizabeth Slate
Dylan Small
Richard Smiley
Stephanie Smullen
Daniel Soki
Cathie Spino
Brent Stackhouse
Martina Stallmann
Nancy Stambler
John Stewart
Susan Stewart
John Stickler
Marilyn Stolar
Daniel Stram
Charles Strecker
Walter Stroup
James Sugrue
Michael Sullivan
David Sullivan
Alex Sutherland
Wendy Swanson
Dionne Swift
Tvrtko Tadic
Yaoyuan Vincent Tan
Lu Tang
Kezhen Tang
Yuxiao Tang
Gong Tang
Jeremy Taylor
Yves Thibaudeau
Heather Thomas
Laine Thomas
Katherine Thompson
Sally Thurston
Wilfredo Toledo
Hsiao-Hui Tsou
Alison Turner
Glenn Tuttle
Jeffrey Vaks
Ingrid Van Keilegom
Jennifer Van Mullekom
Alexis Vasconez
Guilherme Veiga Da Rocha
Steve Verrill
Dennis Walsh
Jin Wang
Min Qi Wang
Francis Watson
Michael Weaver
Clarice Weinberg
Mark Wheldon
James Whipple
Andrew White
James Whitmore
Derrick Wilson
Alyson Wilson
Jeffrey Witmer
Andro Wohlgenant
Joel Wolfrath
Victoria Woodard
Jing Wu
Jeremy Wu
Colin Wu
Wen-Chi Wu
Henry Wyneken
Robert Yaffee
Wuxin Yang
Yang Yang
Hung-Wen Yeh
Kwee-Poo Yeo
Lisa Ying
Frank Zahradnik
Jerrold Zar
Angelique Zeringue
Bing Zhang
Yuxin Zhang
Yao Zheng
Issam Zineh