The Future of SNAP? Improving Nutrition Policy to Ensure Health and Food Equity

This brief summarizes key points and critical questions about the “Future of SNAP,” highlighting approaches to improve nutrition policy to ensure health and food equity nationwide.

Structuring Development for Greater Community Benefit

The report recommends that a public-private partnership model with a Community Development Entity (CDE) be considered for the Global Campus at Richmond Bay.

Rent Control: The Key to Neighborhood Stabilization?

September 09, 2015 By Miriam Zuk Whoever thought rent control would be making a comeback after 30+ years? Especially in California, a state that essentially ended the ability of jurisdictions to apply strict rent controls with the passage of the...

Looking Back and Facing Forward on the Americans with Disabilities Act

Twenty-five years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Paul Hippolitus, Director of the Disabled Students Program at UC Berkeley, talks about his work in the disability field for the past 44 years. Prior to coming to Berkeley...

Semi Annual Newsletter: Spring 2015

This issue showcases our latest research, events, publications, and more from June 2014 to June 2015.

Othering & Belonging Post-Conference Report

An online-only report detailing the events of the first Othering & Belonging Conference on April 24-26, 2015 in Oakland, California.

Why Sanctuary Policies Must Stay: The Legal and Factual Reasons for Limiting ICE Detainers

15406523566_6ba635a354_o.jpg Katie Steinle’s death is a tragedy. Steinle is the 32-year-old woman allegedly killed by a gunshot wound inflicted by Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate—often referenced under the alias Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez (“Sanchez”) [1]...

Black Lives Matter, A Year After Ferguson (featuring john a. powell)

Director john a. powell is featured in this video produced by AJ+ one year after Michael Brown's killing in Ferguson, Missouri.

The Intersection of Social Consciousness and Happiness

By: Ry Walker Is it possible to be both socially conscious and happy? This is the question I continue to ask myself. After having officially completed the first half of my college career, I can say that I have changed drastically. I have figuratively...

Capitalism: What Next?

What I began as a review of Cynthia Kaufman’s Getting Past Capitalism has transformed into something both intellectually thrilling and personally significant. In this regard, Professor Kaufman’s text is a fantastic success. For anyone, like myself...