Fri, Feb 24, 2023

4 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Make the stars align in your leadership journey! Hear from graduate alums who share thought-provoking insights and candid advice based on lessons learned throughout their careers as part of the GradFUTURES Star Lessons in Leadership graduate alumni speaker series.

Our featured keynote is Karthick Ramakrishnan *02. Karthick is a professor of public policy at UC Riverside, and executive director of California 100, a transformative statewide initiative focused on building a shared vision and strategy for California’s next century that is innovative, sustainable, and equitable. He is also the President of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA). This talk is the day before Princeton's Alumni Day, and we have invited other members of the graduate alumni community to join us. A networking reception will follow the talk.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 | 4-5 PM
JULIS ROMO RABINOWITZ ROOM 101
NETWORKING RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN LOUIS A. SIMPSON ATRIUM (Room 171)

Learn more about Karthick Ramakrishnan *02: https://karthick.com/
Learn more about California 100: https://california100.org/
Learn more about GradFUTURES Star Lessons in Leadership: https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/current-students/discover-signature-programs/star-lessons-leadership
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Karthick Ramakrishnan

Professor of Public Policy at UC-Riverside and President of the APGA

University of California Riverside

Karthick Ramakrishnan is professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, and is executive director of California 100, a transformative statewide initiative focused on building a shared vision and strategy for California’s next century that is innovative, sustainable, and equitable.



Ramakrishnan also founded the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside, and AAPI Data, a national publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). He has published many articles and 7 books, including most recently, Citizenship Reimagined (Cambridge, 2020) and Framing Immigrants (Russell Sage, 2016), and has written dozens of opeds and has appeared in nearly 3,000 news stories. Ramakrishnan was  named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is currently working on projects related to racial equity in philanthropy and regional development. He holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in politics from Princeton.



Ramakrishnan is president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, chairs the California Commission on APIA Affairs, and serves on the Board of The California Endowment and the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC). Ramakrishnan also founded Census Legacies, which builds on the foundation of census outreach coalitions to build more inclusive and equitable communities, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, an official section journal of the American Political Science Association.



More information at https://karthick.com.