Podcast: ICE raids, farmworkers, & the COVID-19 crisis

In this episode of Who Belongs? we look at the reality facing undocumented immigrants and migrant farmworkers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear from three researchers who discuss some of their recent and upcoming articles that look at...

Podcast: Ian Haney López on Bernie Sanders & the Race-Class Message

Click to download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Ian Haney Lopez, a professor of law here at UC Berkeley, about his new book: Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. The book...

Podcast: Surveying Black Women Voters in Nevada

Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests, Erika Washington and Quentin Savwoir from a civic engagement group in Nevada called Make it Work - Nevada. In the interview they discuss a recent survey they...

Podcast: 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery Initiative at UC Berkeley

Download an MP3 of this episode. In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests about a year-long initiative at UC Berkeley marking the 400th anniversary of the start to slavery in North America. The initiative includes weekly events with...

Podcast: Alicia Garza on Identity Politics and 2020 US Presidential Election

Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement and the principal of the Black Futures Lab, which is an organization that engages Black voters year...

Podcast: Mobilizing Hard-to-Count Populations for Census 2020

Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Michael Gomez Daly, the director of the Inland Empowerment coalition, and Sky Allen, who is the coalition's census coordinator, about their efforts to mobilize people in...

Podcast: Journalist Lawrence Lanahan on Crossing Baltimore's Racial Divide

Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs?, we hear from journalist and author Lawrence Lanahan, from Baltimore, about his new book called The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. The...

Podcast: Voter Suppression in Georgia, with Robert Greenwald and Carol Anderson

Download an MP3 of this interview. This episode of Who Belongs? is another installment of our Civic Engagement Narrative Change project series, with project researcher Josh Clark interviewing two guests: The first is Robert Greenwald, an award...

Podcast: Artist Christine Wong Yap on her Places of Belonging Project

In this episode of Who Belongs? host Sara Grossman interviews Christine Wong Yap, who became the Haas Institute's first Artist in Residence in the fall of 2018, about her "Places of Belonging" project, which was recently featured in a KQED report.

Podcast: Prof. Agata Lisiak on Migration and Gentrification in Europe

D ownload an MP3 of this interview here . In this episode of Who Belongs? Sara Grossman speaks with Agata Lisiak, a professor of migration studies at Bard College Berlin, about her work on Eastern European migration to the Western Europe, the...

Podcast: Engaging Asian Pacific Islanders, with Luisa Blue of the SEIU

Download an MP3 of this interview here. In this episode of Who Belongs, we talk to Luisa Blue, who is the Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and an expert on Asian Pacific Islander civic engagement issues...

Podcast: Targeted Universalism, with john a. powell

Download an MP3 of this episode here . In this episode we hear from john a. powell, who is our director, and a professor of law and African American Studies here at UC Berkeley. In the interview we discuss a brand new primer we’ve just published on...

Podcast: The Role of Family in Prisoner Reentry, with Prof. David Harding

Download an MP3 of this episode here. In this episode of Who Belongs? we talk with Professor David Harding, UC Berkeley sociologist and member of the Haas Institute's Economic Disparities faculty research cluster, about a new book he co-authored...

Podcast: The Stakes for the 2020 Census with Michael Omi and Stephen Menendian

In this episode of Who Belongs? we discuss the topic of the US Census with Professor Michael Omi, who is an affiliated faculty member of our Institute, author of Racial Formation in the United States, and one of only a handful of experts on the US Census.

Podcast: Abandonment in Detroit with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk

Download an MP3 of this episode here. In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk, who have been working in a variety of capacities for equitable development and racial justice in Detroit for many years. Peter is a...

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Transformative Research Toolkit

Introduction We have seen and participated in transformative research strategies that defeated proposed jail expansions, won millions of dollars for community-prioritized programs, and built new community-led organizations that changed a political...
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Depolarization Day

Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...

Book Talk: Before Gentrification, with Tanya Golash-Boza

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book...