Daniel Yudkin

Daniel Yudkin is the Director of the Beacon Project at More in Common, a multi-year initiative to build a new civic vision that speaks to modern challenges, and an Affiliated Scholar at The Murphy Institute. His work uses insights from social psychology to understand and bridge political divides. 

Yudkin's award-winning research has been featured in thousands of articles, including on the front page of The New York Times, the BBC, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Financial Times, NPR, and in multiple Presidential campaigns. He is an acclaimed public speaker, and has authored articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. His academic research has been published in leading scientific journals such as Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Human Behavior. He is an accomplished jazz pianist, having played professionally in the United States and Europe, and released his debut solo EP, “Pure Imagination,” in 2022. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, daughter, and small black dog.