Presentations

On November 12, 2016, professor john a. powell gave a presentation on the neuroscience behind the process of othering. This presentation was one of many throughout a two-day conference on the economics of race. Hosted by the Institute for New...

October 29, 2016 Professor john a. powell took part in a day-long symposium, where he was the featured speaker. Hosted by The Psychotherapy Institute, the symposium explored topics like race, anxiety, and mind science​, as well as the need to make...

October 25, 2016 john powell presents at a Kids Count meeting with foundation members. He speaks on Targeted Universalism and how it can inform the decisions that state legislators, public officials and child advocates make in a way that considers...

September 27, 2016 Building Community in an Age of Growing Anxiety and Polarization. A talk at Scripps College by Director john a. powell. Download the presentation.

October 5, 2016 Director john powell presented the opening keynote at the 23rd Annual Affordable Housing Conference, a national housing conference organized by Housing Washington October 4-6, 2016. Prof. powell spoke on the emerging national housing...

September 13, 2016 As part of the Thinking Ahead Speaker Series, Jim Pugh and Chris Benner lead a conversation on the universal basic income and how it can be used to tackle toxic economic inequality. This event was emceed by Claudia Jimenez, a...

August 11, 2016 Thinking Ahead with Paul Pierson took place on August 11, 2016.

On July 14, 2016, Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented before the Northern California Industry Liaison Group (NCILG) on the science and research of implicit bias and social cognition and the law of discrimination. The NCILG is a consortium...

On Monday, December 14, Executive Director john a. powell helped Communities Creating Opportunity (CCO) in developing an evaluation matrix for CCO community organizing and leadership development...

UC Berkeley Professor Ian Haney López teamed up with MoveOn.org Civic Action, Demos Action, and Inequality Media, to demonstrate how Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump relies on racism as a strategy to divide the country for the benefit...

May 2016 Over the weekend of May 6, Executive Director john a. powell held a residency with the Humboldt Area Foundation in Humboldt County, California. In his first keynote at Humboldt State University, Dr. powell explored with HSU students and...

May 2016 Over the weekend of May 6, Executive Director john a. powell held a residency with the Humboldt Area Foundation in Humboldt County, California. In his first keynote at Humboldt State University, Dr. powell explored with HSU students and...

April 26, 2016 Director john powell opens our We Too Belong event with a look at inclusive practices that bridge immigration and incarceration. Download the presentation. wetoobelong_presentation_cover.png

April 3, 2016 Stephen Menendian discussed the reality of racial segregation in the United States, noting that African American households remain as segregated from white households as they were in 1950. Menendian explained that a diverse set of...

Americans are engrossed in a deep conversation about the impact of racism in our educational, judicial, social and economic spheres. In the movement for universal justice, Executive Director john a. powell discussed these issues with the community of Fairfax County in Virginia over a weekend residency with the Reston Community Center...