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SEEKING INDEPENDENT CONTRACT EDITOR FOR NEW PUBLICATION ON OTHERING & BELONGING About the Position The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is seeking an Experienced Editor with demonstrated publishing and editorial experience to help...

Photo Credit: Joe Brusky via Flickr/CreativeCommons License Courts and Congress must find way to protect families from being torn apart # # # June 23, 2016: The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley is alarmed and disturbed...

Amicus brief filed on behalf of 35 leading social scientists by Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Equal Justice Society, argued that UT Austin's admissions policy should be allowed to consider race...

HAAS INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES NEW REPORT RELEASE ON COMMUNITY-CAMPUS STRATEGIES FOR FOOD JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH IN RICHMOND, CA BERKELEY, CA/APRIL 28, 2016. The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is excited to announce the upcoming...

WE TOO BELONG RESOURCE GUIDE The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society announces the release of a major new publication, entitled We Too Belong: Resource Guide of Inclusive Practices in Immigration and Incarceration Law & Policy. The...

The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is excited to welcome former Mayor of Oakland and experienced public servant Jean Quan. Jean Quan will be joining the Haas Institute as a Senior Fellow, working on special projects as well as with...

Our new report finds that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the mega-regional trade deal, raises serious concerns about how a world economy reregulated to suit corporate interests would undermine public accountability, transparency, and democratic...

JAN 28, 2016: The Haas Institute added their public support to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation's launch of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) commission. These organizations make up WKKF's America Healing Racial Equity Anchor...

Amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin says UT admissions policy must be allowed to consider race in order to promote equal educational opportunity for all students OAKLAND, Calif. (Nov. 2, 2015) – The holistic admissions policy at...

Today, Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) and Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society (Haas Institute), two national organizations focusing on racial equity and inclusion, announced the Government Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE) as a joint project.

Berkeley, CA: The Haas Institute mourns the loss of Lynn Manning, an award-winning poet, playwright, and actor. Lynn passed away in Los Angeles on August 3 at age 60. We were honored to host Lynn at our 2015 Othering & Belonging conference in April...

JULY 27, 2015 : The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society applauds the Obama Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) ongoing efforts in dismantling segregation in communities nationwide. Through a new rule...

The decision last Friday by the Supreme Court granting the right to marry for same-sex couples throughout the nation is a historical moment and one that we at the Haas Institute not only applaud, but deeply celebrate. E xtending the right to marry...

BERKELEY, CA: The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley enthusiastically applauds the Supreme Court’s landmark decision today to uphold a key legal protection in the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The Court held for the first time...