What We Do
Federal Hill Research Group is in the business of opinion research. We’re a non-partisan, woman-owned firm that helps non-profits, public advocacy organizations, public affairs agencies and businesses understand what the public is thinking. We’ll help you make good decisions through good data.
We design and analyze survey projects that are conducted on landlines and cell phones, online panels, and by mail. Contact us today and we can tailor a survey project to fit your needs.
Meet Mileah
Mileah Kromer wants to know what people are thinking. She’s made a successful career figuring out the what and why of public opinion and how it shapes measurable outcomes.
She founded Federal Hill Research Group to help non-profits, advocacy organizations, public affairs firms and businesses better understand how the public views the issues important to achieving their goals. Mileah has more than a decade of experience designing and executing survey research projects.
She currently serves as the Director of the UMBC Institute of Politics. Prior to joining UMBC, she served as the director of the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher College which conducted the Goucher College Poll. Mileah’s polling work in Maryland since 2012 has gained national recognition and been cited in the New York Times, MSNBC, The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others.
Her commentary regularly appears in statewide media and she is a frequent guest on local public affairs programming, including Midday on WYPR and On the Record on 11 TV Hill, WBAL-TV’s Sunday morning news show. Her opinion writing has appeared in Politico Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Banner, The Hill, Maryland Matters and CNN. She was recently named to The Daily Record’s Most Influential Marylanders.
Mileah spent four years at Elon University as the assistant director of the Elon University Poll, where she designed surveys on North Carolina politics and policy. Prior to that, she spent five years working at Louisiana State University’s Public Policy Research Lab while completing her Ph.D. in political science.
She was born and raised in small town Western Pennsylvania but now proudly calls Baltimore City home.