New Report on Low Income Housing Tax Credit Finds Room for Improvement in Promoting Access to Opportunity for Bay Area Developments

New Report on Low Income Housing Tax Credit Finds Room for Improvement in Promoting Access to Opportunity for Bay Area Developments March 14, 2017/Berkeley, CA: The Haas Institute releases a new study that comprehensively analyzes the administration...

Executive Orders Represent Divisive Policies Built on Fear of the Other

Islamophobic, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Native American, Anti-Women, and Anti-Environmental Executive Orders Represent Divisive Policies Built on Fear of the Other Trump’s First Round of Executive Orders Are Grave Attack on our Democratic Institutions FOR...

Structural Competency: New Responses to Inequity and Discrimination in Health and Welfare

Structural Competency: New Responses To Inequity And Discrimination In Health And Welfare On November 4, 2016, The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and members of our Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster hosted a conference in...

Renowned Sociologist Saskia Sassen to Speak at Institute’s Othering & Belonging Conference

Acclaimed scholar and public intellectual Saskia Sassen will be taking the stage at the Haas Institute’s Othering & Belonging conference this spring to discuss the mechanics and forces of Othering, including the financialized global economy...

An Inauguration Day Dialogue with Berkeley Faculty

On January 20, join us for an important conversation on our changing times and the work that we have ahead to support advocacy, community engagement, and policy change. Many Haas Institute affiliated faculty, including our Associate Director Taeku...

Haas Institute Participates in National Day of Racial Healing in United States on Jan. 17

The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is one of 130 organizations participating in this year's National Day of Racial Healing in the United States. Taking place on January 17, 2017, the daylong series of events is hosted by the Truth...

Religious Diversity Cluster Hosts Conference on "Democracy and Religious Pluralism"

October 27 & 28, 2016: The Haas Institute’s Religious Diversity cluster hosted a two-day workshop at UC Berkeley last October that brought together academics and thinkers from diverse disciplines to share scholarship related to “ Democracy and...

The Intimacies of Four Continents, A Review

In 2015, Duke University Press published Lisa Lowe's acclaimed paradigm-shifting monograph, The Intimacies of Four Continents. In her book, Lowe examines the consolidation of modern liberal thought—a broad term describing citizenship, freedom, legal...

Funding Public Pensions: A Policy Brief from Just Public Finance

A new research brief examines the funding and accounting complexities of municipal pensions. FEBRUARY 9, 2017/ BERKELEY, CA: The Just Public Finance Program of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society released a new research brief on the...

“Next Steps: Towards Basic Income and Basic Assets”

A Day Long Structured Dialogue to Explore the Tech Economy & Build On its Strengths to Establish Enduring Prosperity This fall we are convening community & labor organizers along with economic & policy experts to consider what the next steps towards...

Election 2016 Perspectives

Masculinity, Anxiety, and Fear of the Other in the Age of Trump: a new essay by Sara Grossman looking at the role of toxic masculinity, misogyny, homophobia, and anxieties around the Other that have been amplified by Donald Trump in this Presidential...

Black Liberation and the Food Movement, A Community Forum

This forum aims to address how structural racism and violence against Black communities extends into and across the food system, as well as the capacity of food system work to address Black liberation.The afternoon will include a Keynote address by...

New Video Campaign Urges Black Millennials to #Vote4BlackFutures

#Vote4BlackFutures: Black youth and organizations have played a critical role in lifting up issues of structural racism in the criminal justice system and in US society as a whole. Let's extend black activism to the ballot box on Nov 8! This dynamic...

New Report Finds that Women and Girls Continue to Face Overwhelming Gender Bias Across Sectors

Haas Institute co-releases new report with the Perception Institute and leading social scientists with proven solutions to reduce the effects of implicit and explicit gender bias in the media, workplaces, schools, and communities. Berkeley/October 27...

Haas Institute Pleased to Announce New Chief of Staff, Puanani Forbes

After an extensive national search, the Haas Institute is pleased to announce that Puanani Forbes will be joining the Institute as its new Chief of Staff this month. Puanani comes to the Institute with a highly diverse background in increasingly...

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Transformative Research Toolkit

Introduction We have seen and participated in transformative research strategies that defeated proposed jail expansions, won millions of dollars for community-prioritized programs, and built new community-led organizations that changed a political...
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Depolarization Day

Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...

Book Talk: Before Gentrification, with Tanya Golash-Boza

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book...