The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announcement the appointment of James N. Druckman and Celeste Watkins-Hayes to its board of trustees. They will officially join the RSF board at its November 2022 meeting.

James N. Druckman is Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellows at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. Druckman is a contributing author to RSF volume Who Gets Represented? and is an RSF research grant recipient. He is also the author of Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments (Cambridge University Press), co-author of Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of Advances in Experimental Political Science(Cambridge University Press) and Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (Cambridge University Press). Druckman is currently the co-Principal Investigator of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) and the editor of the Cambridge Elements Series on Experimental Political Science. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Druckman earned his B.A. from Northwestern University in mathematical methods in the social sciences and political science and his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in political science.

Celeste Watkins-Hayes is the interim dean of the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and founding director of the school's Center for Racial Justice. Watkins-Hayes is also the Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, professor of sociology, and an Anti-Racism Collaborative research and community impact fellow. She is the author Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality (University of California Press) and The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform (University of Chicago Press). Watkins-Hayes served on the board of trustees of Spelman College for over a decade and is a founding steering member of the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, having served on the board of directors of the Detroit Institute of Arts from 2017 to 2021. Watkins-Hayes earned her B.A. from Spelman College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in sociology.