Karthick Ramakrishnan, PhD, has served in leadership roles that span academia, government, public policy, and philanthropy. He is a research director and researcher at UC Berkeley and founder/executive director of AAPI Data, a nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He is also the founder of Bolder Futures, a catalyst for intergenerational collaboration and social entrepreneurship and serves as President of the Princeton Club of Western Washington (PCWW).

Ramakrishnan previously served as Executive Director of California 100, a statewide effort that harnessed 20 research centers to envision and transform California’s next century across 15 issue areas. He also served for 4 years as the founding associate dean of UC Riverside’s School of Public Policy and for 19 years as a professor of political science and public policy. He has also served on the Boards of The California Endowment, the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC), and The California Association of Nonprofits. Ramakrishnan also served as president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, as chair of the California Commission on APIA Affairs for 6 years, founded and led the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside for 6 years, and founded and led for 3 years the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, an official section journal of the American Political Science Association.

Ramakrishnan has published many articles and 7 books, including Citizenship Reimagined (Cambridge, 2020) and Framing Immigrants (Russell Sage, 2016), and has written dozens of opeds and has appeared in nearly 3,000 news stories. Ramakrishnan was  named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is currently working on projects related to equitable futures and innovative governance. He holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.

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