Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa FBA

Summary

Hirokazu Yoshikawa (he / him) is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, a Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and a University Professor at NYU. He is a community and developmental psychologist who conducts research-policy, research-advocacy, and research-practice partnerships related to immigration; early childhood development; youth development; sexual orientation and gender identity; and poverty reduction. 

He has conducted research in the United States and in Latin America, South Asia and the Middle East.  He is the author of 'Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children', the first scholarly book to focus on mixed-status families with young children in the United States.

He led the research and evaluation for Ahlan Simsim, the inaugural MacArthur Foundation 100&Change initiative, partnering with Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to support early childhood development among Syrian refugee and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

He has served as a Trustee of the Foundation for Child Development and the Russell Sage Foundation, and currently serves as a Trustee of the William T. Grant Foundation.

He received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development in 2023, and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize from the Jacobs Foundation in 2025. He received a BA in English literature from Yale University, a Masters of Music degree from the Juilliard School in piano performance, and a PhD in clinical psychology from New York University.