Video: Stephen Menendian keynote at the Fair Housing Conference

Haas Institute Assistant Director Stephen Menendian gave a keynote talk on April 1 at a fair housing conference in San Rafael on the topic of residential racial segregation. Stephen prefaced his remarks with an explanation that the fundamental...

Video: EJ Toppin on resistance to reparations as a crisis of national identity

Haas Institute researcher EJ Toppin participated in a panel discussion on the issue of reparations on April 1, 2019 at a conference on fair housing in San Rafael. EJ addressed the resistance among white people to reparations, saying that the issue...

Video: john powell & Nadine Strossen engage on campus hate speech

On March 15, 2019, Haas Institute Director john powell and New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen discussed the issue of campus hate speech at an event at the University of Delaware. The conversation focused on responding to hate speech on...

Video: Ibram X. Kendi and john a. powell on "How the Ideology of Race Shapes Education and Society"

On March 6, 2019, Director john powell spoke as a respondent to Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s book talk on his work, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America . In Stamped , Professor Kendi argues that there are two...

john powell at the "ALL IN for Equity" conference in Monterey County

On March 2, 2019, Director john powell gave a keynote at the "ALL IN for Equity" conference in Monterey County. The event was hosted by the Monterey County Office of Education in collaboration with other local agencies. The conference brought...

Video: john a. powell on anti-Black state violence

On February 20, 2019, Director john a. powell was keynote speaker at the Symposium on Anti-Black State Violence in the US and Brazil held at the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium aimed to address multiple perspectives on how scholars...

john a. powell on Dr. King’s legacy at the University of Michigan

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21, 2019, Director john powell spoke on the Reverend Dr. King’s legacy at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Director powell centered his discussion around Dr. King’s vision of...

Video: Stephen Menendian on 50 years since the Fair Housing Act

On November 27, 2018 Haas Institute Assistant Director Stephen Menendian gave a presentation titled "The Fair Housing Act at 50: The Perils and Promise of Disparate Impact." The presentation was given before the Ohio Civil Rights Commission at a...

Video: john powell on "Investment Without Displacement"

On December 4, 2018, Professors Manuel Pastor and john a. powell spoke of power and race and the cultural erasure that follows when families are pushed out because they can no longer afford their neighborhood at SPARCC’s national convening...

2018 APHA Panel

On November 12, 2018, Professor john powell participated in the 2018 annual American Public Health Association (APHA) meeting in San Diego, California. In the morning, Professor powell engaged in a fireside chat conversation with Dr. Anthony Iton...

Equity in Health Transformation

On October 24, 2018, Professor john a. powell gave a keynote address at the Healthier Washington Medicaid Transformation Learning Symposium in Seattle, WA. The audience consisted of 300 health care professionals from regional healthcare coalitions...

Bay Area Housing Affordability Advocacy Forum

On September 27, 2018, Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented at the "Bay Area Housing Affordability Advocacy Forum" organized by Rise Together held at the San Francisco Public Library. Following remarks by state Senator Jim Beale, Stephen...

Advancing Race Equity - Move it Forward

On September 25, 2018, Director john a. powell spoke to an audience of approximately 125 at the New York State Council on Children and Families conference on racial equity and healing. powell spoke on strategies to co-create alternative spaces for...

SCG Conference 2018: Our Common Humanity

On September 17, 2018, Director john a. powell participated in the Southern California Grantmakers Conference on Our Common Humanity. The conference focused on strategies the philanthropic sector can employ to generate systemic change for the...

john a. powell at the Global White Privilege Conference in Toronto

On Friday, May 11, Director john a. powell spoke at the Global White Privilege Conference hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto. In front of a group of over 100 conference attendees, john spoke about the importance of transformative vs...

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Bridging Partnerships for Scaling Housing Justice

Register now Housing justice for all. To truly be for all, we need housing solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building...

Blog: Gender, Goosebumps, Grace, and Grieving

Julia McKeown's tattoo inspired by the poetry of Andrea Gibson. “When I left my body I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” From Love Letter From the...