Cary Funk is associate director of research on science and society at the Pew Research Center. She is a co-author of Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society and How Scientists Engage the Public. She is a survey researcher with broad expertise in political and social attitudes, including politics and elections, race and ethnicity, and religion and U.S. politics. She has been specializing in public understanding of science topics since 2001. Prior to joining Pew Research, she directed the VCU Life Sciences Surveys, national surveys on science and biotechnology. She has served as an outside consultant and advisor for numerous projects about the science and engineering workforce and public opinion on science. She is currently on the editorial board of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. Funk began her career at CBS News in New York, where she worked on pre-election surveys and exit polls; in more recent years, she served as an election night analyst for NBC News. She was on the political science faculty at Rice University and at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) before joining the Pew Research Center. While an associate professor at VCU, she directed statewide polls on politics and public policy issues and on K-12 education, in addition to the VCU Life Sciences Surveys. She earned a doctorate and a master’s in social psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Funk has published numerous academic articles and book chapters in the fields of political science, public opinion and political behavior and is a co-author of The Rise of Asian Americans, Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths, "Nones" on the Rise and The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States.