Our Team

Candiya Mann, M.P.A.

Ms. Mann has been with SESRC since the year 2000 and has a Masters in Public Administration in International Management. She designs and performs evaluations on large, federally funded grants, leads social science and economic research projects, including process and outcome evaluations, need assessment, and pure research. Ms. Mann performs quantitative and qualitative analysis using […]

Don Dillman, Ph.D.

Don A. Dillman is a Regents Professor, Department of Sociology and Deputy Director for Research and Development in the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center (SESRC) at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where he has been a faculty member since 1969. He is recognized worldwide as a major contributor to the development of modern […]

Rose Krebill-Prather, Ph.D.

Dr. Rose Krebill-Prather, Ph.D. Sociology, has over 30 years’ experience in survey research and program evaluation pertaining to issues in agriculture, health, education, customer satisfaction and community needs assessment. She has expertise in multiple survey data collection modes including web, mail, telephone, focus group, and face-to-face surveys as well as mixed-mode surveys. Dr. Krebill-Prather provides […]

Nathan Palmer, M.S.

Nathan Palmer has been working at the SESRC since 2012 and earned a Masters of Science in Statistics that same year. Mr. Palmer is responsible for the management and storage of all data files. In that responsibility, Mr. Palmer manages and clean the data files during the data collection period, then finalizes the dataset. Mr. […]

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Dan Vakoch, M.S.

Dan Vakoch has an M.S. in Zoology, and has worked with SESRC since 1993. Dan Vakoch has over 21 years of survey research analysis experience. As a Scientific Programmer and Data Analyst, Mr. Vakoch is responsible for SAS programming and statistical analysis on projects. Mr. Vakoch had served as a SAS, statistical, and data analyses […]

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Yi-Jen Wang, M.A.

Yi-Jen Wang has been with SESRC since 2002 and has a M.A. in Political Science. Ms. Wang has over 15 years of survey research experience which includes implementing and managing projects, communicating with survey clients, and designing and conducting survey administrative data analyses.

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Thom Allen, B.A.

Mr. Allen, study director and web survey specialist, is responsible for implementing and managing survey research projects at SESRC. He has served as project director for survey methods research at the center over the past three decades and is an expert at administering multi-mode data collection projects. Mr. Allen has years of experience applying visual design […]

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Kent Miller, M.A.

Kent Miller, with the SESRC since 1992, has a M.A. in Sociology. He has held many positions with the center including Program Operation Lead, Project Manager, Data Collection Supervisor, and Research Survey Supervisor. Kent leads the Project Management unit.  In his role as a Project Manager, he is responsible for client interactions, project planning, developing questionnaires, respondent […]

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Lena Le, Ph.D.

With a Ph.D. in Natural Resources, an MS in Statistics,  and an MBA, Dr. Lena Le is well suited for a leadership role as SESRC’s Director. Dr. Le has over 15 years’ experience applying quantitative and qualitative methods to social science research related to tourism, recreation, public land management and other fields. Dr. Le was appointed Director […]