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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.

Board of Trustees
Jennifer Lee

Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences

Columbia University
Jennifer Richeson

Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology

Yale University
Marianne Bertrand

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

University of Chicago
Cathy J. Cohen

David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science

University of Chicago
James N. Druckman

Professor of Political Science

University of Rochester
Jason Furman

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

Harvard University
Michael Jones-Correa

President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science

University of Pennsylvania
David Laibson

Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics

Harvard University
David Leonhardt

Senior Writer

The New York Times
Earl Lewis

Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor

University of Michigan
Hazel Rose Markus

Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences

Stanford University
Tracey Meares

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

Yale University
Mary Pattillo

Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Black Studies

Northwestern University
Thomas J. Sugrue

Julius Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History

New York University
Celeste Watkins-Hayes

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

University of Michigan
Russell Sage Foundation Senior Staff
Leana Chatrath

Foundation Secretary and Senior Program Officer

Aixa Cintrón-Vélez

Program Director

David Haproff

Director of Communications

Suzanne Nichols

Director of Publications

Anna Silvera

Controller

Patrick Valentine

Director of Operations

James Wilson

Program Director