Interviews

What gets people to the polls—and what keeps them away? Reporters from Berkeley Journalism’s North Gate Radio explore California’s midterm elections, from voter ID requirements and public transit funding to the challenges facing first-time voters. They also examine what motivates people to vote, why some sit elections out, and how voters can make sense of a crowded ballot.

CAUSE is a base-building organization committed to social, economic, and environmental justice for working-class and immigrant communities in California’s Central Coast. Born of two separate organizations...

Annamaria Olsson founded Give Something Back to Berlin over a decade ago, working on migration, integration, and countering xenophobia. Her current project, Stories from the Beauty Parlor, grew out of a single conversation in a Berlin salon and has...

For more than 15 years, Adrienne Evans has organized in some of the most politically conservative, rural communities in the United States. Through her work with United Vision for Idaho and the United Vision Project, she's helped facilitate over 100...

Read the fourth piece in the Blueprint for Belonging paper series, "New Organizing Strategies for California’s Future," featuring Miguel Hernandez of the OCCCO, a faith-rooted, community-led organization in Orange County focused on developing everyday leaders to organize for systemic change.

The Denver Foundation leaders talk about their effort to connect Colorado residents through Belonging Colorado, a long-term initiative that aims to bring residents together to strengthen communities and work across differences.

Othering and Belonging Institute’s Resident Cultural Strategist, and UC Berkeley lecturer, Chelsea Gregory has devoted her life to weaving art, culture, and justice together to create spaces of belonging

The Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ICIJ) is composed of over 35 organizations that serve immigrant communities in the Inland Empire of Southern California. The Inland Empire region includes the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino. Geographically, the region...

True North Organizing Network is a group engaged in community organizing in California’s “Far North,” especially the counties of Humboldt and Del Norte, and on Tribal lands. This region of California is often left “off of the map”...

Long time Detroit organizer Ponsella Hardaway on church-rooted power, regional bridges, and why this moment demands conversations across the aisle

Lawrence Benito, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, on bridging tensions in Chicago and why democracy depends on it.

On Sept. 10, 2024, Othering & Belonging Institute Director john a. powell interviewed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk about her memoir, Lovely One.

One of the most basic problems with prioritizing vaccination based on age is that Black people, Native people, and other people of color generally have shorter lifespans than other Americans.

In this episode of Who Belongs? we look at the impacts of minimum wage increases with Michael Reich, a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley.

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Jacinta González, an organizer with Mijente, a non-profit which leads campaigns to educate and organize around issues concerning immigration, detentions and deportations.