Katherine Sharga

Katherine is a Community Fellow working with Muhlenberg College’s Institute of Public Opinion in Allentown, where she is involved in all aspects of public opinion research. Katherine’s main responsibilities include programming surveys, data collection, analyzing results, providing statistical analysis and tables, and writing reports based on the surveys conducted. Her first task was working on tracking polls for the Morning Call’s 2010 election coverage, analyzing data, and preparing it for the next day’s publication. Katherine is currently overseeing two major polling projects. One is a national survey on global climate change, and the other is a survey of Lehigh Valley residents on gambling. She will also be working on creating a survey with a local agency in the near future. Katherine is a M.A. candidate in Political Science.