Haas Institute Director john powell spoke to a crowd of over 1,500 people at the annual Bioneers conference in San Rafael, CA on October 19, 2014, where he was an invited plenary speaker. john's talk, entitled "Beloved Community: Interbeing, Race, Class, and Person 'Hood" explored our fear of the “Other” which can be magnified by unstable contracting economies, radically shifting demographics, and new social norms—and asked the question: Can humanity overcome these divisions and come together to protect our common home?
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change.
