Hahrie Han, Ph.D. is the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

She has written for outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and others. She is an award-winning author of four books and numerous articles published in leading scholarly outlets including the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, Nature Human Behavior, PNAS, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and elsewhere.  She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was named a 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation, and delivered the Tanner Lectures at Harvard University in 2024.

Her fifth book, Undivided​, The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church​, is about faith and race in America with a focus on evangelical megachurches. 

She also acted as co-convenor of a Policy Advisory Committee for the 2008 Obama campaign and served as Chair of the Advisory Committee to the EAC Agency Review Team on the Obama-Biden Transition Team and also as National Issues and Policy Advisor to Senator Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign in 1999-2000.

In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters passed a universal preschool ballot initiative. The margin was so large that many who elected Trump must have—paradoxically—also voted for the initiative: How could the same citizens support such philosophically disparate aims? What had convinced residents of this Midwestern, Rust Belt community to raise their own taxes to provide early childhood education focused on the poorest—and mostly Black—communities?

And we ask...

• How does that 2016 outcome fit beside the 2024 election?
• How much of the shift among non-white voters in the recent election has been telegraphed by demographic shifts among conservative Christians?
• How might these trends be significant during the second Trump Administration?
• What lessons from Undivided and other works by Prof. Han should faith communities consider as we organize our people, power, and money for social justice under President-Elect Trump?

Join us on Tuesday, December 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET to hear from Hahrie Han, Ph.D, on her new book Undivided​, The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church​, which is about Faith and Race in America. You can buy that book here.

Professor Han speaks extensively on the way some grassroots organizations translate the engagement of their people into political power and how people become motivated to participate in politics, looking particularly at the means of engaging underprivileged populations in political action.

Undivided, chronicles the story of four participants—two men, one Black and one white, and two women, one Black and one white. As their journeys unfolded in unpredictable and sometimes painful ways, they came to understand one another better and believe in the transformative possibilities for racial solidarity in a moment of deep divisiveness in America. The lessons they learned have the power to teach us all what an undivided society might look like—and how we can help achieve it.

Buy her book here. Review the Press Release on the book.