Her research focuses on nonsampling errors in surveys, with a focus on nonresponse, measurement errors due to interviewers, within-household selection in self-administered surveys, and paradata as a way to study these errors. Dr. Olson teaches courses on regression methods, sampling, analysis of complex survey data, and total survey error. She has an MS in Survey Methodology from JPSM at the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Olson is an associate editor of JOS and was research synthesis section editor for Public Opinion Quarterly from 2008 to 2015. She is the author of multiple journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations in the areas of nonresponse, the intersection of nonresponse and measurement errors, interviewer effects, and paradata.