Karthick Ramakrishnan is a professor of public policy and political science at UC Riverside and the founding director of its Center for Social Innovation. The author of seven books, most recently Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States, Ramakrishnan also directs the National Asian American Survey and AAPI Data. Before joining a Zócalo/Daniel K. Inouye Institute panel, “Does a New Wave of Anti-Asian American Racism Require New Ways of Fighting Back?,” he chatted in the virtual green room about how watching ’88 election ads introduced him to U.S. politics, why we can’t escape citizenship, and his Zoom pro-tip.

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