E-Newsletter Archive

An Archive of past issues of our bi-weekly newsletter.
Sep
24

Hans Kundnani | Whiteness and the European project

European identity – as opposed to national identities in Europe – is often imagined as being inclusive or even cosmopolitan. But in the long history of ideas of Europe, it has been defined against a series of Others. In the...

2026 Othering & Belonging Conference

The next Othering & Belonging Conference will be held April 1- 2, 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky!

Hans Kundnani

Senior Fellow

Nthando Thandiwe

Research Analyst
Aug
13

Living into the Future

To advance housing justice for all, we need solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building a culture and system that prioritizes...

Jonathan Smucker

Senior Fellow
Jun
30

Structural Racism Book Launch

Join us on June 30 for a virtual conversation among three Berkeley experts on the nature and causes of racial inequality, how to think about the problem of racial inequality, and what should be done about it. They will be...
Zoë Baker

Zoë Baker (she/they) is an MS Public Policy and Data Analytics student at Carnegie Mellon University. She is passionate about leveraging mapping, data science, and other quantitative methods to inform policy and advocacy efforts related to urban spatial inequality and reparations. Raised in San Francisco, Zoë’s commitment to these issues was shaped by the stark disparities she observed commuting between a historically Black neighborhood and one of the city’s wealthiest.