Kathleen A. Frankovic has been an election and polling consultant for CBS News, Harvard University, the Pew Research Center, Open Society Foundations, YouGov and other research organizations. She speaks and writes internationally about public opinion research, journalism and elections as an invited speaker in places as diverse as Italy, Jordan, Hong Kong, Manila, Mexico, Lisbon, Chile, Seoul and India.
In 2009 she retired after more than 30 years at CBS News as Director or Surveys, where she managed the CBS News Poll and, after the 2000 Presidential election, CBS News election projections.
She served as President of both AAPOR (the American Association for Public Opinion Research) and WAPOR (the World Association for Public Opinion Research. In 2008, she won the AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement and in 2011, received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
Currently, she is a member of the Professional Standards Committee of ESOMAR, the Global Insights Community, and in that role chairs the committee that updates the ESOMAR/WAPOR Guide on Opinion Polls and Published Surveys and provides content on polling to the ESOMAR website.
She received an A.B. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University. Before joining CBS News, she taught political science at the University of Vermont and has also held visiting professorships at Cornell and at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Botany Mills, Passaic River in Garfield, New Jersey by Valeri Larko She was born in Passaic, just across the river from Garfield, New Jersey, where she grew up in the house of her Rusyn immigrant grandparents, and attended Most Holy Name School and Pope Pius XII Diocesan High School, neither of which is still open. She now lives in New York City (returning after 15 years on the Big Island of Hawaii) with her husband, Hal Glatzer, a writer and musician.
On the Big Island, she (sometimes) performed as an actor and singer in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, as she had in college and graduate school. She also had roles in shows like Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and (her personal favorite) Nunsense.
