Karthick Ramakrishnan is founder and director of AAPI Data, a nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, based at the Asian American Research Center, UC Berkeley. He is also Strategy Lead for the Americas at School of International Futures, and Senior Advisor at States for the Future.
Ramakrishnan previously served as Executive Director of California 100, a transformative statewide initiative focused on California’s next century. He also served for four years as associate dean of UC Riverside’s School of Public Policy and for 19 years as a professor. He also serves on the Board of The California Endowment and on the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC). Ramakrishnan also served as chair of the California Commission on APIA Affairs for six years, founded and led the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside for six years, and founded and led for three years the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, an official section journal of the American Political Science Association.
Ramakrishnan has published many articles and seven 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 equitable futures and innovative governance. He holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in politics from Princeton.
