Sharon Hessney is the “curator” of graphs, feature writer and moderator for “What’s Going On In This Graph?” (WGOITGraph?). Since 2017, WGOITGraph?, a collaboration of The New York Times Learning Network and the American Statistical Association, encourages students to tease out the story from timely and engaging graphs. In addition, she administers the feature by recruiting, training and assigning more than 70 moderators who have a broad diversity by math teaching, location and expertise.

Roxy Peck is a professor emerita of statistics at Cal Poly. She was a faculty member of the Statistics Department for thirty years, serving for six years as Chair of the Statistics Department and thirteen years as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Nationally known in the area of statistics education, Roxy was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998 and in 2003 she received the American Statistical Association's Founders Award in recognition of her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education.

Dr Benjamin Odoi  is a Lecturer at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Mines and Technology, UMaT, Tarkwa, Ghana. He holds PhD, MPhil (Statistics), MSc ( Applied  Statistics), BSc (Mathematics), Cert. (Advanced Data Science and Big Data Analytics), Cert.(Mining Engineering). 

He has over 25 peer-reviewed papers and over 100 citations. His research interests include Big Data Analytics, Applied Statistics, Climate Changes, Price Volatility Modelling, Multivariate Statistics and Statistical Engineering.

J.N.K. Rao is a Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is a leading authority in survey sampling theory and methods and empirical likelihood methods for survey data. In recent years, his research focused on small area estimation (SAE), a topic of great practical interest due to growing demand for