Carolina Franco is a principal statistician at NORC at the University of Chicago. She conducts research and consulting on the modeling of survey data and related topics and is widely recognized for her expertise in small area estimation (SAE). Before joining NORC, Carolina spent several years working at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (CSRM). Carolina is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and holds several leadership appointments in the statistics community. She is guest editor of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, past chair of the Washington Statistical Society’s Morris Hansen Lecture Committee, past chair of the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Committee on International Relations in Statistics, a member of the Program Committee for the 2024 SAE Conference in Turin, Italy and a member of the ASA Edward C. Bryant Scholarship Committee. In the past, she has served as associate editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (JRSS-A), as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the 2023/2024 SAE meeting in Lima, Peru, and as chair of the Gertrude Cox Scholarship Committee, among various other roles.