Blog: Tensions over Reparations Expose Crisis of National Identity

The question of reparations for African Americans has entered the political discussion in a way it has never before. A number of candidates for the Democratic nomination for the presidency have publicly declared their support for a reparations plan...

john a. powell on the Problem of Othering, at the Open Society Foundation in Berlin

On June 19, 2019, Director john a. powell participated on a panel discussion in Berlin, Germany hosted by the Open Society Foundation on defining the populist movement and the need for narrative change. Fellow panelists included Timea Junghaus...

john powell Keynote Speech on Spiritual Belonging (June 14, 2019)

On June 14, 2019, Professor john powell gave a keynote address at the Mind & Life Institute’s Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, entitled, “Contemplative Practices and Interventions for Individual and Social Flourishing.” The week-long...

Blog: The Troubling Elimination of Puerto Rican Public Schools

Escuela Luis Santaella, a shut down school outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nearly half of the public schools in Puerto Rico have been closed in just nine years, an unprecedented elimination of public education facilities in recent US history. The...

Video: Nile Project founder Mina Girgis on how music can be used for bridging

Mina Girgis, an Egyptian musicologist and Haas Institute senior fellow, presents on his Nile Project collective during a talk on June 5, 2019 at UC Berkeley.

Blog: Reforming anti-Tax Prop 13 is a Racial Justice Issue

With an amendment to Proposition 13 on California’s ballot in 2020, the conversation around the measure’s impact and its potential reform is intensifying. Understanding how Prop 13 not only resulted in exacerbating inequality, but in some ways welcomed it—by those who stood to benefit from public disinvestment—helps underscore the urgency of its reform.

Blog: The 1966 Hunters Point Uprising in “the San Francisco America pretends does not exist”

Riot police draw guns on residents during 1966 riots on 3rd Street. Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library This week, Haas Institute Assistant Director Stephen Menendian and Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein with Coblentz Fellow Nirali...
Emily Stratmeyer

Emily Stratmeyer is a rising 2L at Wake Forest University School of Law. Originally from Baltimore, MD, she earned her Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Government and Politics from University of Maryland, College Park in 2016. Prior to starting her legal education, Emily served as an intern for the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and worked as a legal assistant at a prominent mediation and arbitration firm in Washington, D.C.. Emily is interested in criminal justice reform, child welfare, and housing policy.

Priya Prabhakar

Priya Prabhakar is a rising senior at Scripps College, pursuing a degree in Media Studies with a focus in labor, surveillance, and visual theory. Priya has previously worked at the Worker Rights Consortium where she did research about labor union movements of garment workers in the Global South.

Rolando Perez

Rolando received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Pitzer College, completing a double major in Sociology and Spanish. As an undergraduate, Rolando completed two qualitative-based theses centering on Intercultural Bilingual Education and the revitalization of indigenous identity in Andean Ecuador, and a second thesis project examining the fluidity of racial and ethnic identity formations of Latinx students in domestic and international contexts after completing study abroad programs.