Dr. Soyoung Jeon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business at New Mexico State University. Dr. Jeon received her Ph.D. in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. After completing her postdoctoral research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Dr. Jeon worked as a research statistician at the Border Biomedical Research Center at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her primary research interests focus on environmental statistics and the spatiotemporal modeling of extreme values. As a scientist living in the border region of the United States, Dr. Jeon has continued researching health disparity issues in low-income communities. She is a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and serves on the ASA Archives and Historical Records Committee.