Former RSF trustee, visiting scholar, and author Hirokazu Yoshikawa (New York University) has been awarded a 2023 Biennial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development Award by the Society for Research in Child Development. The award is given in recognition of an individual’s continuous lifetime contributions to research that informs policy and practice for the benefit of children. The selection committee cited Yoshikawa’s “cutting-edge, theoretically informed, and methodological rigorous understanding of policy implications on infants’, children’s, and adolescents’ developmental processes” as well as “his expansive program of research that attends to the environmental conditions that jeopardize children’s development.”

Hirokazu Yoshikawa is Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at Steinhardt, New York University. He is a former RSF trustee and a former RSF visiting scholar. He is the author of RSF book Immigrants Raising Citizens, co-author of RSF book Cradle to Kindergarten, co-editor of RSF book Making it Work, and a contributor to RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences issue “Anti-poverty Policy Initiatives for the United States.”

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