E-Newsletter Archive

An Archive of past issues of our bi-weekly newsletter.
May
1

May Day Teach-In, Organizing as Strategy

Register Join Jonathan Heller and David Rebanal, organizers with the Health and Power Organizing Project (HPOP), for a participatory session to unpack the power imbalances underlying health inequities and strategize how to build collective power, through community organizing, for health...
Apr
11

Detroit: A conversation with john a powell

Register for free Join MOSES for a powerful community conversation with internationally renowned scholar and civil rights leader john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. In a time of democratic fragility, powell invites us...

Aarti Sethi

Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology
Apr
30

The Constitutional Right to Transition

This lecture chronicles the remarkable life of Frances Thompson, who was born male and into slavery in Maryland in the 1830s. She was one of a handful of women who transitioned sex while enslaved, and she fled to Memphis after...

Legacies of Eugenics Conference

Join us at the University of California, Berkeley on April 10 - 11, 2026 for a gathering that will explore the persistence of eugenic logics and practices in science, medicine, and technology and how we can build a better future...

Dmitri Brown

Assistant Professor of History
Apr
9

Book Talk: The Mixed Marriage Project

Join us on April 9, 2026, at UC Berkeley for a presentation by Dorothy Roberts on her latest book, The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family. Register here About the speaker Dorothy Roberts is the 14th...
Mar
5

Beyond the Divide

Register Now Join the Palo Alto City Library and Stanford University for a free event as part of Silicon Valley Reads' "Bridges to Belonging" program. Experts Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt and john a. powell will explore the roots of bias to...