Kira Lillard is a librarian in the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City where she is responsible for researchers’ code and data releases, website administration, and is a member of the Data Governance Committee. She holds a BA from The Colorado College, an MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai’I, and an MLS from Emporia State University. Her research interests include web usability, research access and replicability, and universal design. 

Lars Vilhuber holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université de Montréal, Canada, and is currently on the faculty of the Cornell University Economics Department. He has interests in labor economics, statistical disclosure limitation and data dissemination, and reproducibility and replicability in the social sciences. He is the Data Editor of the American Economic Association, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.

Kathleen has managed data collection and management efforts for the non-profit Roper Center for Public Opinion Research since 2016. During that time, she has led the implementation of a new acquisition policy based on a combination of methodological and transparency criteria, enactment of a Transparency Project for all data providers, and development of a bifurcated collection based on methodological evaluations, as well as enhanced presentation of methodological information to aid in the evaluation of historical data files. Most recently, she has directed the development of inclusion policies for building Roper Center-curated trends of polling questions.