Veteran pollsters Dan and Pat Jones will be honored Tuesday as recipients of the first Insight Award from the Utah Foundation, a nonprofit research organization based in Salt Lake City.
The pair’s work “has led generations of Utahns to a better understanding of their community,” the Foundation said in a press release for its 70th anniversary gala Tuesday at Grand America Hotel. The event is sold out.
In addition to the pair’s polling on politics and public policy, Dan Jones is being recognized for decades of teaching and mentoring students at Utah State University and, since 1980, at the University of Utah. He taught his last class in 2013. Pat Jones is being singled out for her 14 years in the Utah Legislature, most recently in the state Senate. She left her seat in 2014 and earlier this year took on a new role as CEO of the Women’s Leadership Institute, which encourages more women to take leading roles in business and government.
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