leadership positions in the Survey Research Methods Section and the Biometrics Section, and he has served on both the ASA Census Advisory Committee and the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics. His professional contributions have been recognized by a diverse array of organizations (including the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics, and the UCLA Public Health Student Association), and recognition for his role in developing the Community Partners in Care project on dissemination of evidence-based strategies for depression in under-resourced communities included the Team Science Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science and American Federation for Medical Research, the Annual Award from the Community-Campus Partnership for Health, and the UCLA Communityshortcut by walking across the creek when the ice was thick enough, although I learned the hard way that sometimes it was not! My parents met as undergraduates at the University of Michigan and stayed there for advanced degrees (business and law for my father, education for my mother). My father got a job with a law firm in Des Moines, and my mother was a teacher for a few years before my brother Jon came along. I was born in 1964, during the time my father was one of about a dozen lawyers who served as counsel to the Warren Commission. I recall first being aware of his role investigating the assassination of President Kennedy when we were on a family trip to Washington, DC when I