• Podcast
  • September 26, 2018

Podcast: Gordon Whitman Breaks Down Community Organizing

Download an MP3 of this interview . In this first episode of Who Belongs? , we talked to Gordon Whitman, who is the deputy director of Faith In Action, formerly known as PICO, which is a national network of faith-based organizations working to build...
  • Podcast
  • September 19, 2018

Podcast: Reinventing the Wheelchair: Interview with Ralf Hotchkiss

Back in March we interviewed Ralf Hotchkiss, a renowned disability rights activist, engineer, and co-founder of the Whirlwind Wheelchair project, based in Berkeley, CA.
  • Interview
  • September 6, 2018

Faculty Profile: Public health scholar Claire Snell-Rood on mental health challenges facing rural women

Claire Snell-Rood is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley and a member of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster. Here, she discusses mental health problems facing women in rural areas and effective policy and non-policy interventions that can help address these challenges.
  • Interview
  • May 24, 2018

What Comes Next?

A conversation with Senior Fellow Joshua Clark about his post-2016 election research and analysis—work that is part of his joint position with the Haas Institute and Tides Foundation. On the week of the one-year anniversary of the 2016 presidential...
  • Interview
  • November 10, 2017

Segregation Was No Accident

This piece was originally published in the 2017 Haas Institute newsletter. An interview with Richard Rothstein on how the US government enacted policies to produce and maintain segregation—and the effects of these policies today. Rothstein was...
  • Video
  • November 2, 2017

john a. powell on how bridging creates conditions to solve problems

In this short video, our director john powell talks about the concept of bridging—engaging with people outside of our own familiar group, including with those who hold opposing political views.
  • Interview
  • October 27, 2017

On spirituality and belonging: a conversation with Sonali Sangeeta Balajee

Balajee poses for a photo at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA What does spirituality have to do with belonging? What are we missing when trying to identify the root causes of suffering and inequity? How do we remedy collective suffering as a...
  • Interview
  • August 17, 2017

Confederate monuments memorialize white supremacists

Haas Director john a. powell said Thursday that President Donald Trump was siding with white supremacists in his remarks lamenting the removal of Confederate statues. In a radio interview with KPFA’s Letters and Politics program, powell said: “I...
  • Interview
  • May 11, 2016

Faculty profile: Malo Hutson on Health Disparities and the Built Environment

Malo Hutson is an associate professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, Associate Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, and a faculty member of the Haas Institute’s Diversity and Health Disparities cluster. He spoke...
  • Interview
  • April 6, 2016

Visiting Scholar Profile: Victor Pineda on Disability Rights, Urban Planning, and Inclusive Cities

Victor Pineda is a Senior Research Fellow and visiting scholar at the Haas Institute who is working to expand on the scholarship and research of the Haas Institute Disability Studies Cluster . We recently spoke with him about living with a disability...
  • Interview
  • January 22, 2016

Researcher Nadia Barhoum interviews Rabih Alameddine

Haas Institute researcher Nadia Barhoum interviewed Lebanese-American painter and award winning writer Rabih Alameddine. Alameddine has authored four novels and a collection of short stories. Listen to the audio of their discussion here. Transcript:...
  • Interview

Acclaimed Professor and Disability Studies Expert to Join Berkeley Faculty as Endowed Chair of Equity and Inclusion

For Karen Nakamura, leaving her esteemed position at Yale University was no easy decision. In the end, though, Nakamura, a Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies, believed that the offer of a new appointment at UC Berkeley “was literally a...
  • Interview

Haas Institute's Newest Faculty Cluster Member: Economic Anthropologist Jovan Scott Lewis

From an early age, Jovan Scott Lewis had his feet firmly planted in two very different worlds: Montego Bay, Jamaica and Lauderhill, Florida, the latter of which is well-known for its high population of Jamaicans. “I was aware that I was a part of...
  • Interview
  • September 28, 2015

Faculty profile: Jason Corburn on Why Public Health is Important for Equity and Opportunity

Jason Corburn is an Associate Professor of Public Health and City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and the new director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD).
  • Interview
  • August 31, 2015

Transcending Borders Through Music; An Interview with Alsarah from the Nile Project

A group of artists and musicians from seven Nile Basin countries transformed the renowned Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus into a joyous space celebrating solidarity and compassion in February 2015 by performing original arrangements of...

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