Melissa Deckman, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
 Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.
President and Founder
 Diana Orcés, Ph.D.
Director of Research
 Sean Sands, MBA
Chief of Staff
Colleen Ross
Senior Communications Associate
 M. Toni Baptiste, SHRM-CP
Operations and People Associate
 Madelyn Snodgrass
Research Assistant
 Jack Shanley
Research Assistant
 Belén Bonilla
Strategic Engagement Associate
Avery Park
Communications Assistant
 The Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Walker (Chair)
President, 1791 Delegates
 Ruth Braunstein, Ph.D. (Vice Chair)
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut
 Janelle Wong, Ph.D. (Secretary)
Prof. of American Studies, University of Maryland
 Gerardo Martí, Ph.D.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
 Andra Gillespie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University
 The Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas, Ph.D.
Canon Theologian, Washington National Cathedral
 Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.
President and Founder
 Stella M. Rouse, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
 Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University
 Melissa Deckman, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
 Andrew Whitehead, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Indianapolis
The Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson
Retired Bishop, The Diocese of New Hampshire
 Jane Hong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Occidental College
The Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Ph.D.
Senior Minister for Public Theology and Transformation
 Jemar Tisby, Ph.D
Author, Speaker, and History Professor, Simmons College
Paul Djupe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Denison University and Co-editor, Politics & Religion

Meet the 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellows 

The 2024-2025 cohort of PRRI Public Fellows is part of the organization’s Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative, a program announced in April 2021 that seeks to increase understanding of the role of religion in public life at a time when America is facing immense challenges. Through the Initiative, the Public Fellows will be organized into peer groups of three whose work will be aligned with PRRI’s major research areas: religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism; racial justice and white supremacy; immigration and migration studies; reproductive health and rights; and LGBTQ rights.

 Chana Etengoff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University
 Landon Schnabel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University
 Joanna Wuest, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University
Michal Raucher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University
 Anne Whitesell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Political Science at Miami University
 Lloyd D. Barba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religion and Latinx/Latin American Studies at Amherst College
 Anita Huízar-Hernández, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
 Sergio M. González, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University
 Michael R. Fisher Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University
 Ansley Quiros, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Alabama
 Allyson Shortle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma
Youssef Chouhoud, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science at Christopher Newport University
 Dara Coleby Delgado, Ph.D.
Bishop James Mills Thoburn Chair of Religious Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at Allegheny College
Seth Gaiters, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at North Carolina State University