Board Biographies

From 2012 to 2016, Amanda managed the day to day functioning of the Guttmacher Institute’s internal library and assisted staff in accessing journal articles and trained staff to use the Guttmacher library and reference management software. She also supported the Guttmacher Center for Population Research Innovation and Dissemination, aiding preparation of grant proposals and reporting (including Compliance with NIH Public Access Policy and creating and maintaining biosketches), coordinating the Center’s conference presence at the annual Population Association of America meeting, and managing requests for the Center’s public use datasets. In her current position as Senior Research Assistant, she has helped lead the Institute’s roll out of Zotero for citation management and serves in an ad hoc advisory capacity to staff currently managing the library. While more of her time is now spent on research projects, she continues to be involved in Zotero training and trouble-shooting. She is completing her Masters of Public Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.

Elana Broch Is the Assistant Population Research Librarian at Princeton University, as well as the selector for Education. She supports the Office of Population Research (i.e., demography, very broadly defined) as well as the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her focus is on domestic social policy issues including, but not limited to, education.

Elana holds a Ph.D. in Psychometric Methods, which she earned before attending library school. After working as a measurement statistician on the GRE at Educational Testing Service for 10 years she left to go to library school She has been at Princeton since earning her MLIS degree in 2001.

Elana is interested in educational assessment and the methodological issues involved in conducting educational research. She is a proponent of data and statistical literacy for librarians. The majority of her recent presentations are designed to hopefully increase librarians’ comfort with statistics and (avocationally) Jewish genealogy.

Joann Donatiello is the Population Research Librarian at Princeton University’s Donald E. Stokes Library for Public and International Affairs and the Ansley J. Coale Population Research Collection. In this role, she collects worldwide censuses and vital statistics, provides reference assistance, manages the Population Research Collection, and assists Princeton’s Office of Population Research affiliates with NIH Public Access Policy compliance. Prior to her arrival at Princeton, she was the Information Specialist at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, where she started the library, and before that she was the Government Documents and Special Collections Librarian at Monmouth University. In her previous careers, she conducted quantitative and qualitative research projects in the United States and Europe, and worked as an assistant lobbyist for a health professional organization. Joann holds an M.L.S., and an M.A. in Political Science with specializations in survey research and public policy from Rutgers University, where she was an Eagleton Fellow, and a B.A. in Spanish and Sociology from Drew University. She is a recipient of the Daniel T. Richards Prize for Writing Related to Collecting in the Health Sciences from the Medical Library Association Collection Development Section. Joann is currently working with the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation to archive Statistical Agency websites throughout the world.

Debra is responsible for the leadership, management, and oversight of the POPLINE database—a web-based collection of population, family planning, and related reproductive health and development literature. LinkedIn profile.

Senior Research Administrative Assistant, Guttmacher Institute. Erin started at Guttmacher over 3 ½ years ago. She spends most of her time at work talking about contracts, payments, and IRB issues. She loves the city, mountains, AND the beach; you could say that she truly is a Jersey girl.