Rucker Johnson

Rucker C. Johnson is an American economist currently serving as Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the W.E. B. Du Bois Institute of Harvard College as well as a Research Affiliate of the National Poverty Center and the Institute for Poverty Research. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He won the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and also the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education (a $100,000 prize) for his 2019 book “Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works,” written with Alexander Nazaryan. Provided by Wikipedia