Stephanie Kramer

The writer/editor is a position within the Center’s Religion research team, which seeks to promote a deeper understanding of religion and spirituality. The Religion research team conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research in the United States and around the world, studying people’s religious beliefs and practices as well as their views on related issues, including religion’s role in public life. The ideal candidate will have a strong data journalism mindset, with the ability to translate complex quantitative findings into clear and engaging narratives that are nonpartisan and non-advocacy. This position will be embedded within the Religion research team, where the writer/editor will work collaboratively to shape the team’s research agenda, including identifying key research questions; contributing to survey development; and synthesizing findings into accessible and compelling storylines. The writer/editor will also evaluate drafts of research reports to determine whether there are shortcomings in the analysis; edit, rewrite and reorganize drafts as necessary to improve flow and clarity; and work with researchers and designers to create appropriate charts and tables. In addition, the writer/editor will provide guidance and training to the Religion team’s researchers and serve as a writing resource. Following the release of reports, the writer/editor may help disseminate research to the public through the Center’s social media channels, videos, newsletters, and virtual or in-person gatherings, always adhering to the Center’s independent, nonpartisan, non-advocacy stance. 

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Writer/Editor, Religion Research Position Summary   The writer/editor is a position within the Center’s Religion research team, which seeks to promote a deeper understanding of religion and spirituality. The Religion research team co...

The religion team has an opening for a writer/editor with experience writing up complex quantitative findings for a general audience. Come work with us! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

So happy to see Matt's EXCELLENT paper out in the world. I originally agreed to pitch in with sermon transcript analyses largely because I have a soft spot for grad students with overly ambitious plans, and I'm so impressed by how it all turned out.

A grad school office mate summed me up once by saying, "Stephanie, you are the embodiment of calling a spade a spade." She did not mean it as a compliment.

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

"Influencers are central to this ambient news model. The creators who have the most impact on shaping public understanding of policy, science, and social or political issues today are often not political commentators or subject-matter experts at all." carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Any influencers who'll never take a partisan or advocacy stance wanna team up with an expert whose awkward personality, middle-aged suburban mom status and penchant for taking being genuine too far make her a bad candidate for sharing research through short videos? 😬

Relatedly, we're producing this stuff in Word right up until it's ready to go online, lots of our published graphs were made in Excel, our academic journal access is pretty limited and there's a lot of excitement in the office when we get free smoothies or ice cream a couple of times a year. 😅

In my 9 years of chit chat about my work at Pew Research Center, people have consistently been surprised that:

- Pew is our benefactors' surname, not an acronym or reference to church seating
- Only around 170 of us are on staff (<100 researchers)
- As a 501c3, we give all of our work away for free

Map of United States of America shows 20 U.S. metro areas with the largest number of immigrants as of 2023. These include New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C. and Chicago. Circles over cities indicate size of immigrant population on a scale of 500,000 to 6 million.

A majority of U.S. immigrants are concentrated in only a dozen metro areas

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What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.

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Stacked bar chart showing educational attainment by country or region of birth. Most regions show higher shares of people with Bachelor's degrees or more than for the U.S.-born, but 36% of all immigrants and 36% of all native-born adults age 25+ hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Immigrants from most regions are more likely to hold a Bachelor's degree or higher than native-born adults in the U.S. Nearly 20% of U.S. workers are immigrants, but their numbers are declining.

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.

The U.S. immigrant population grew at a record-breaking pace throughout the past few years but has shrunk since January, marking its first decline since the 1960s.

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Everyday Revenge We are interested in stories of everyday revenge—cases where you successfully got back at someone after being wronged. Please think up an experience of when you took revenge and tell us about it. Pl...

@anagantman.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully gotten back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it.

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#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

Also, slogans like "Save the Earth" are bad both because they're inaccurate and humans are self-interested creatures who aren't great at abstract concepts. The Earth doesn't need our help; it's seen many extinction events and always just keeps on keeping on. We're the ones who need saving.

I'd like to broaden this to "what really should be common knowledge but isn't" and point out that "life expectancy" is almost always shorthand for LE AT BIRTH. LE extends with age. A modest but literal majority of 70 year olds living in the U.S. today are expected to see 85.

3. The Bureau began work on Census 2030 in 2019. Counting hundreds of millions of people across a vast continent is a big lift. It doesn't seem feasible to accomplish this with the additional task of excluding certain immigrants by 2030.

How removing unauthorized immigrants from census statistics could affect House reapportionment If unauthorized U.S. immigrants aren't counted, 3 states could each lose a seat they otherwise would have had and 3 others each could gain one.

2. Removing these immigrants would likely result in House seat losses for Florida, Texas and California. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Truth social post from @realDonaldTrump reads, "I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!:

This post immediately brought 3 things to mind:

1. The Census Bureau's mission to count everyone is what enables us to study the size and characteristics of the unauthorized immigrant population.

I would love to be able to say exactly when I enter the podcast, but I've never been able to bring myself to listen to or watch my own interviews.

Soon after we released our report on the religious composition of migrants around the world last year, I had this conversation on BBC Four about our results and how the public discourse on the topic tends to shed more heat than light that's just as relevant today.

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The number of Christian-majority countries fell between 2010 and 2020 Countries that lost their Christian majorities all saw growing percentages of religiously unaffiliated people.

Where religiously unaffiliated people are in the majority

🇨🇳 China (90%)
🇨🇿 Czech Republic (73%)
🇰🇵 North Korea (73%)
🇭🇰 Hong Kong (71%)
🇲🇴 Macao (68%)
🇻🇳 Vietnam (68%)
🇯🇵 Japan (57%)
🇳🇱 Netherlands (54%)
🇺🇾 Uruguay (52%)
🇳🇿 New Zealand (51%)

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National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) NPORS is an annual survey of U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center used to to produce benchmark estimates for several topics.

Well, well, well, if it isn't the religiously unaffiliated constituting about 28% of U.S. adults, just like in every one of the past several years.

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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

Sankey graphs depicting movement of individual voters are my favorite

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After Trump’s victory, Democrats are more pessimistic about their party’s future The partisan gap in Republican and Democratic views of their parties’ futures (35 percentage points) is much larger than after any recent election.

Our post election survey finds Democrats more pessimistic about their party's future than at any point in the past eight years: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Chart showing state vaccine requirements for enrollment in day care, child care or preschool.

Chart showing state vaccine requirements for enrollment in K-12 schools.

From the Pew Research Center archives (October 2021): "Republican- and Democratic-led states alike require hundreds of thousands of their citizens – infants, toddlers and schoolchildren, mostly – to be vaccinated against a panoply of diseases." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...