August 2021

On the heels of a highly successful virtual conference, your 2021-22 AAPOR Council has been hard at work planning for the new year. The articles in this month’s newsletter provide some sense of not only the activities underway but also some of the incredible passion and pride AAPOR volunteers have for the association.

​A deep-hearted thank you to our staff, committees, volunteers, speakers, and attendees for making the 76th Annual Conference a huge success! Our virtual conference featured a record number of attendees (1,283) and 88 sessions, with 35 mini-conference sessions to explore the impact of COVID on our work and 53 main conference sessions to advance our knowledge. 

After a great year of learning opportunities through AAPOR’s webinars and short courses, we are gearing up for 2022. Calls for both short course and webinar topics (with links to online submission forms) will be distributed later this summer and proposals will be due in early fall. 

Thank you for joining us at this year’s AAPOR conference! The AAPOR Welcoming Committee was thrilled to meet so many of you this year, and we cannot wait to see you again next year. We are hard at work planning for next year and expect to be hosting a virtual happy hour or two in the fall to catch up with everything that’s happened since AAPOR back in May. 

For this member spotlight, I met with the Diversity Pipeline Award winners*, Leslie Garza, Tyler Fowler, and Aliyah McIlwain. This is an impressive and enthusiastic group, and we spoke about their areas of interest and experiences with AAPOR.

​Like national AAPOR, DC-AAPOR has shifted most of its content to virtual events throughout the pandemic. As local conditions continue to improve, we are looking forward to resuming in-person activities in the coming months. We hope to host our annual holiday party in person this year!