Maurice "Mickey" Carroll is the director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. He is available to comment on political and social trends.

Carroll began his journalistic career at the Rutherford Republican in New Jersey and has also worked for The New York Times, New York Newsday, the New York Post, Passaic Herald-News, Jersey Journal and Newark Star-Ledger. He was one of the reporters in the basement of Dallas police headquarters when Jack Ruby shot Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Carroll is also co-author of two books, "Dallas Justice," Melvin Belli’s story of the Ruby trial; and "No Hiding Place," a story of the American hostages in Iran, with Bob McFadden and Joe Treaster of The New York Times.

Born and raised in Rutherford, N.J., Carroll is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

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David T. Ives has been executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute since January 2002 and is also an adjunct professor of Latin American studies, political science, philosophy and international business. He holds a bachelor's degree in social work and a master's degree in student personnel and counseling, both from Ohio State University, and worked on a doctorate in Latin American history at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

He holds extensive global experience in higher education and the nonprofit sector, most recently working as program manager at the Countryside Exchange, The Glynwood Center in Cold Spring, N.Y. He was the executive director at The Louis August Jonas Foundation in New York for 11 years, where he ran an international leadership training program for young people from countries with histories of conflict. He is directing the Albert Schweitzer Institute by building a strategic planning process, which will expand its visibility and programs in health, humanitarianism and peace. He is the co-president of the United Nations Association of New Haven and a member of the International Consortium on the Arms Trade Treaty.

Ives is a member of the Board of Advisors for World Centers of Compassion for children run by 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Betty Williams and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Albert Schweitzer Association based in Gunsbach, France. He also gives weekly radio commentaries on WQUN on international issues.  

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Doug Schwartz has been the director of the Quinnipiac University Poll since 1995. Schwartz directs all aspects of the survey process, including formulating the questions and analyzing the data. He serves as a press contact for the poll, doing newspaper, radio and television interviews regarding polls and politics in Connecticut.

Schwartz previously served in New York City as a survey associate with the CBS News Election and Survey Unit and as an election night analyst for the late CBS correspondent Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes."

He is a 1988 cum laude graduate of Connecticut College in New London and holds a PhD in political science from the University of Connecticut.