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Short bio: 

Karthick Ramakrishnan is professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside and the founder of AAPI Data and co-founder of California 100, a ambitious futures initiative. He also serves as president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and serves on the Boards of The California Endowment, the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC), and the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P). Ramakrishnan also served 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 most recently, 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 racial equity in philanthropy and regional development. He holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in politics from Princeton.

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Long bio:

Karthick Ramakrishnan is professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside and the founder of AAPI Data and co-founder of California 100, a ambitious futures initiative. He also serves as president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and serves on the Boards of The California Endowment, the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC), and the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P). Ramakrishnan also served 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 is an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and has held prior fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was  named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is currently working on projects related to racial equity in philanthropy and regional development. He holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in politics from Princeton.

Ramakrishnan’s research focuses on civic participation, immigration policy, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States. He directs the National Asian American Survey and is founder of AAPIData.com, which publishes demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He also founded Census Legacies, which builds on the foundation of census outreach coalitions to build more inclusive and equitable communities, and the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside, which integrates researchers, community organizations, and civic stakeholders in collaborative projects and long-term partnerships that strengthen shared values of resilience, inclusion, sustainability, and equity (RISE).

Ramakrishnan has published many articles and 7 books, including most recently, Citizenship Reimagined (Cambridge, 2020) and Framing Immigrants (Russell Sage, 2016). He has received many grants from varied sources such as National Science Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California Wellness Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, and Weingart Foundation, and has provided consultation to philanthropic leaders and public officials at the federal, state, and local levels. 

In addition, Ramakrishnan was founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP), an official section journal of the American Political Science Association, director of the UC-wide program on AAPI Policy, and an Assembly appointee to the California Commission on APIA Affairs (2014-2017, 2018-2023). He has written dozens of opeds and has appeared in over 3,000 news stories, many in major news outlets such as the New York Times, Economist, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, and CNN.

He was named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is currently working on projects related to racial equity in philanthropy and regional development. More information at https://karthick.com.