Jodie directs complex research studies throughout all phases of their project lifecycle and provides specialized leadership and support in areas including overall project oversight, schedule and financial management, staff management, survey protocol development, questionnaire design and testing, staff training, data collection, data quality, data processing and delivery, data analysis, and documentation. Jodie currently directs and manages survey activities for both large- and small-scale studies and has expertise in the management of multi-mode surveys, in-person household surveys, and establishment surveys.

Jodie serves as project director of survey management for the General Social Survey (GSS), the second most frequently cited data source in sociology after the U.S. Census. She also serves as NORC's project director for the National Congregations Study and the National Survey of Religious Leaders. Her recent studies have addressed topics of public opinion, religious congregations and leaders, energy, and trauma-informed community evaluation work. Since 2020, Jodie has led the GSS survey team in transitioning the survey from the traditionally face-to-face GSS questionnaire to a full multi-mode design incorporating web, phone, and in-person administration.

Jodie started her career as a telephone interviewer and has worked as a field interviewer. As a result, she has the broad experience and perspective that comes from both overseeing and executing day-to-day tasks on a wide variety of research studies. Jodie is active in presenting methodological research and has presented internationally on a variety of topics at conferences such as American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the International Field Directors and Technology Conference, the European Social Survey (ESS) Conference, the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference, and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).

She recently co-authored reports on the Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities ACEs, Trauma, and Resilience Network Survey for the Health Federation of Philadelphia and on the Study of the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has been a guest lecturer at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and she currently serves as liaison between the General Social Survey in the United States and the European Social Survey. More recently, she was featured in the 6th edition of Macmillan’s Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences textbook.