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
 The Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Walker (Chair)
Executive Director, 1791 Delegates
 Terry Connelly (Vice Chair)
Dean Emeritus, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University
 Janelle Wong, Ph.D. (Secretary)
Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland
 Gerardo Martí, Ph.D.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
 The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas
Dean, Episcopal Divinity School at Union
 Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University
 Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.
President and Founder
 Melissa Deckman, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
 Paul Djupe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Denison University and Co-editor, Politics & Religion

The 2021-2022 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.

 Aaron Griffith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Modern American History at Whitworth University
 Ashley Jardina, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University
 Christophe Ringer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Society at Chicago Theological Seminary
 Evan Stewart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts Boston
 Jane Hong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History at Occidental College
 Jonathan Coley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University
 Karen Hooge Michalka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Mary
 Luis A. Romero, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University
 Laura E. Alexander, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
 Nazita Lajevardi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University
 SJ Crasnow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Rockhurst University
 Roy Whitaker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Black Religions and American Religious Diversity at San Diego State University
 R.G. Cravens III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the California State Polytechnic University
 Saher Selod, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology at Simmons University
 Tyler Lefevor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Utah State University
 Tarah Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Allegheny College