“Strengthening Democracy in America”

Susan K. Urahn, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a public charity dedicated to improving policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life.

Michael Dimock, Ph.D., is president of Pew Research Center, a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts focused on generating a foundation of facts to enrich the public conversation and support sound decision making. As president, he leads the Center’s research, operations, strategic planning and outreach—work that includes reinventing the Center’s survey methodology, expanding international research and dissemination, and forging new data science approaches to better understand public attitudes, values and behaviors.