It was wonderful to see so many of you in Washington earlier this month attending our Annual Meeting. Your dedication and active engagement is what makes the Annual Meeting such a valuable resource for our community.
We regret that many of our colleagues in the federal government were unable to join us this year, which was a big loss to all of us. We wish them all the best in these uncertain times. We are also extremely sorry for the difficulties our international colleagues faced this year in traveling to the United States. We hope that travel becomes easier next year.
We are deeply grateful to the many PAA members who served on our program organizing committee, thoughtfully developing session titles across 17 different program areas. We also appreciate the many volunteers who organized hundreds of individual regular sessions, carefully selecting from some 3,000 submissions. Special thanks go to the graduate students at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania who helped us organize poster sessions and to the poster captains and poster judges.
This year’s program featured 1785 oral presentations in 235 sessions and 900 posters covering topics from fertility, mortality, and migration to the life course, aging and cognition, intergenerational mobility, as well as many others related to demographic processes across the globe and in diverse populations.
This meeting would not have been possible without the enormous dedication of the PAA staff -- Betsy Alafoginis, Francesca Morton and Bobbie Westmoreland -- who went out of their way to ensure the success of the meeting under unique circumstances that changed the venue and the date of the meeting. And they did it all without PAA having an executive director. PAA is lucky to have them on our staff.
We must also thank Mary Jo Mitchell, the director of Government Affairs for PAA and APC, who so aptly represents our interests and promotes the importance of demographic data collection and research in Washington, for organizing a very well-attended and successful Advocacy Day in conjunction with our meeting.
We look forward to the PAA 2026 Annual Meeting which will follow our typical Thursday to Sunday schedule (with the mixer on Wednesday evening) -- in St. Louis, May 6 - 9, 2026.
Until then, best wishes to all of you.
Irma Elo, President PAA
Kyle Crowder, Vice President PAA
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