Our dedicated team lifted us to new levels in 2025, producing more than three dozen rigorous, probability-based international surveys as well as domestic assignments – quantitative and qualitative alike – for partners as disparate as the American Statistical Association, the Chronicle of Higher Education, a well-known university-based research center and a leading research-focused hedge fund.

We’re excited to build on our strengths in the new year ahead, extending our data-collection capabilities as well as leveraging our expertise in sample designs, writing optimal questionnaires and discussion guides, moderating focus groups, weighting survey data and analyzing results to produce insightful, approachable and actionable research reports.

We’re especially pleased to report that we’re celebrating the arrival of 2026 with several staff promotions:

Yulia Baskakova, Ph.D., from director of international projects to vice president, international research
David Sichinava, Ph.D., from research analyst to senior research methodologist
Jared Sousa, B.A., from research associate to data collection manager
Ishai Melamede, B.A., from research assistant to research associate

Additional gratitude for the many contributions of the rest of our team – Christine Filer, Ph.D.; Allison De Jong, M.A.; Steven Sparks, Ph.D.; Jaclyn Wong, Ph.D.; and Gibran Okar – as well as for the support of our research partners and the interest of friends and colleagues in our ongoing work.