Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University and President-Elect of the American Political Science Association. He has written extensively on public opinion, party politics, identity and inequality, and diversity and democracy. His award-winning academic book Mobilizing Public Opinion reimagines the role that protest movements play in shaping how voters view not just the grievance at hand, but also their deeper moral and political commitments and their willingness to act politically. He edited a companion volume for the World Bank, Accountability through Public Opinion, which chronicles the social innovations around the world that embed mechanisms for democratic publics to hold their governments’ feet to the fire. Taeku’s writings are also animated by the challenges of social and political transformation from demographic change, notably through immigration and racial and ethnic diversity. His award-winning Why Americans Don’t Join the Party chronicles how political parties have abandoned and alienated a plurality of Americans across racial and ethnic divides. Like many political scientists, he is preoccupied by the current threats to democracy. His research in this vein locates the roots of the rise of authoritarian populism in distrust of mainstream media and, more broadly, institutions that adjudicate facticity, such as universities, government agencies and courts. Taeku has served on the National Advisory Committee for the US Census Bureau and the governing boards of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American National Election Studies, and the General Social Survey. He forays regularly into polling for political campaigns and has consulted for civil rights organisations, foundations, and NGOs. Born off an army base in Masan, South Korea, Taeku spent his childhood years in rural Malaysia, lower Manhattan, and suburban Michigan.