The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Hirokazu Yoshikawa to its board of trustees. Yoshikawa is currently the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and a University Professor at NYU. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation during the academic year of 2008-2009, and is the author of the RSF book Immigrants Raising Citizens (2011) and co-editor of the RSF book Making It Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development (2006).

As a community and developmental psychologist, Yoshikawa studies the effects of public policies and programs related to immigration, early childhood, and poverty reduction on children’s development. He has also conducted research on culture, sexuality and youth and young adult development in the contexts of HIV risk and prevention and gay/straight alliances.

Yoshikawa obtained his PhD in Psychology from NYU in 1998. He has previously served as the Academic Dean and the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is currently a member of Leadership Council and Co-Chair of the early childhood development and education workgroup of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He also serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Integration of Immigrants into American Society, the National Academy of Sciences Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally, and the boards of the Foundation for Child Development, the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report, and the Open Society Foundations Early Childhood Development Program. He is also a member of the National Board for Education Sciences and the National Academy of Education.

Click here to view Yoshikawa’s NYU Steinhardt faculty profile.