Events

Please join us in welcoming author Gordon Whitman, Deputy Director of PICO National Network, for a discussion on his book, Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire. He will be joined in...

Professor ​Victor Rios of UC Santa Barbara is set to speak on "The Mis-Education and Criminalization of Black and Latino Boys: The Role of Race, Culture and Resistance in the School-to-Prison Pipeline." Victor Rios is a Professor of Sociology at...

Registration information here DESCRIPTION Racism has been the blueprint and the foundation of the United States since its inception. Over centuries of struggle, the United States has been pushed to evolve on this issue and in many ways the Bay...

We know about the one percent. The ultra-rich. The billionnaire class. But author Richard Reeves writes it’s the upper middle class that matters most. Those top 20 percent of earners are becoming more effective at passing wealth to their children...

Priority Africa Network & the Haas Institute invite you to: People on the Move: visual performance and community conversations on global forced migration Thursday, JANUARY 25, 6-8pm Washington Inn Hotel Oakland Event is free! The global refugee crisis has reached...

Achieving a Richmond Where Everyone Belongs Public release of a community research report and art and original poetry by Richmond residents exploring what it will take to achieve a city where everyone belongs January 20th, 9:30am to 11:30am Nevins Community...

Elizabeth Alexander of Columbia University is set to speak on 'Total Life is What We Need: Self-determination and Black Arts Collectives' This talk is a part of a new colloquium series launched by the Haas Institute called "Research to Impact."...

FOR A VIDEO OF THE TALK CLICK HERE Professor Paul Frymer of Princeton University is set to speak on "The Politics of Mass Deportation in the United States: State Authority, Public Activism, and Government Removal Policies Targeting Native Americans and...

The Oakland Public Library welcomes Haas Institute Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein to discuss, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, on Wednesday, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. In this groundbreaking history of the modern...

FOR A VIDEO OF THE TALK CLICK HERE Jovan Scott Lewis, a member of the Haas Institute's Economic Disparities cluster, will be speaking on the November 17 as part of the Institute's Research to Impact colloquium series. The title of...

After decades of organizing against all odds, finally here in California we have a chance for breakthrough reforms. How can we inspire enough leaders? How can we speak beyond our choir of passionate activists? How can we truly contend for...

Haas Director john a. powell will be one of several figures to provide a keynote address at the three-day National Bioneers Conference to be held October 20 - 22 in San Rafael. powell will speak on the final day of...

FOR A VIDEO AND WRITE-UP OF THE TALK CLICK HERE When it comes to sex, why are we magnetized by consent? Instead of renovating consent to make it sexy, affirmative, or enthusiastic, Professor Joseph Fischel argues we should get rid...

Haas Director john a. powell will be facilitating a panel on race and equity during a plenary session at the 2017 National Forum on Family Philanthropy annual conference. Conversations and clashes around race and equity are becoming more common in...