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Matt Grossmann is Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.

His next book, Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in October 2019. Grossmann is also co-author of Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats, published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and winner of the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the American Political Science Association. His previous books include Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy Change Since 1945, published by Oxford University Press in 2014 and The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation and American Governance, published by Stanford University Press in 2012. He is co-author of Campaigns & Elections, the leading elections textbook from W.W. Norton. Grossmann serves as a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center in Washington, DC, host of The Science of Politics Podcast and a regular contributor at FiveThirtyEight. He has published op-eds in The New York Times and The Washington Post and academic articles in nineteen social science journals. Under Grossmann's leadership since January 2016, IPPSR added more than 60 affiliated faculty members, built a student Policy Fellows Program while expanding Public Policy Forums, public outreach and leadership training. He also created a policy-relevant research search engine, the Correlates of State Policy online database, and an online survey panel of political insiders. He is available by phone at 517-355-6672, by email at grossm63@msu.edu, on Twitter @mattgrossmann and at www.mattg.org.

Karen Clark is currently a Senior Project Manager with MSU’s Office for Survey Research where her primary focus is developing and overseeing data collection using web-based and multi-mode data collection. She has been with the Office for Survey Research since 1991. In 2006, she was instrumental in developing web-based data collection capacity  in OSR. Since then, she has designed, programmed, and managed hundreds of web surveys administered to tens of thousands of respondents, including overseas and in a variety of other languages.

She also has experience with cost estimation and budgeting and working with clients to develop study methodologies, data collection experiments, sampling approaches, and questionnaire design and development. She works extensively with Michigan State University central administration, academic and administrative departments, college leadership, faculty at MSU and across the United States, and non-profit organizations designing, collecting, and analyzing data on a wide range of subjects. 

Karen holds degrees in English and Political Science and is a die-hard Spartan fan. 

 Delicia Solis is Assistant Director of Survey Operations at OSR. Del started working in the IPPSR/OSR Survey Research Lab as an interviewer in 2006 while pursuing her degree in Interdisciplinary Studies: Community Relations at MSU.

Del also worked as a Lab Supervisor and a Lab Manager; she has supervised up to 150 interviewers. She is a graduate of the IPPSR/OSR Survey Operations Skills Program (SOSP). In 2014, Del joined the Bureau of Sociological Research (BOSR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an Interviewer Supervisor for the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Study (BRFSS). While at BOSR, she focused on English-Spanish translations, interviewer training, and quality assurance. In 2015, Del returned to MSU as a Survey Research Lab Manager. Del assists the OSR Director with the day-to-day operations of the Survey Research lab, conducts General Interviewer Trainings (GIT), CATI Training, project trainings, and Spanish trainings. Del can be reached at 517-353-9583 or solisdel@msu.edu.