Who We Are
The Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees and senior staff are dedicated to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. The Foundation supports visiting scholars in residence, funds researchers at other institutions, publishes books and journals, and supports programs to develop new generations of social scientists.


Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business



Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science





Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory

Julius Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History

Joan and Sanford Weill Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy


Foundation Secretary and Senior Program Officer

Program Director

Director of Communications

Director of Publications

Director of Operations


Program Director