Melissa Deckman, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
 Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.
President and Founder
 Natalie Jackson, Ph.D.
Director of Research
 Sean Sands, MBA
Chief of Staff
Diana Orcés, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Research
 Ian Huff
Senior Research Associate
 Amber Cooper
Strategic Engagement Associate
 Jessica Royce
Digital Content Associate
 M. Toni Baptiste
Operations Associate
 The Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Walker (Chair)
Executive Director, 1791 Delegates
 The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas
Dean, Episcopal Divinity School at Union
 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
 Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University
 Ruth Braunstein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut
 Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.
President and Founder
 Stella M. Rouse, Ph.D.
Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland
 Melissa Deckman, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
 Andrew Whitehead, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology at IUPUI
 Paul Djupe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Denison University and Co-editor, Politics & Religion

The 2022-2023 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 four 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; and LGBTQ rights.

 Laura Alexander, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
 Danielle N. Boaz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
 Kelsy Burke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 Ryon J. Cobb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Work at Rutgers University
Andrew R. Flores, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Government at American University
 Aaron Griffith, Th.D.
Assistant Professor of Modern American History at Whitworth University
 Flavio Rogelio Hickel, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington College
 Jane Hong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History at Occidental College
 Suzanna Krivulskaya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History at the California State University San Marcos
 Tyler Lefevor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Utah State University
 Veronica Montes, PhD.
Associate Professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College
 Fanhao Nie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology at Valdosta State University
 Leah Payne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of American Religious History at Portland Seminary
 Luis A. Romero, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University
 Saher Selod, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Simmons University
 Tarah Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Allegheny College