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Consistent with our mission and values, as a multi-disciplinary research center that seeks to advance a world of belonging without othering, the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) conducts research, develops narrative strategy, and supports...

BERKELEY: Climate change is already reshaping where Californians can live and work, according to the Climate-Induced Human Displacement and Migration report, released as part of California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment under the Governor's Office...

Youth Participatory Action Research is a collaborative research approach that positions young people as co-researchers and is grounded in the belief that those closest to the research question or issue hold critical knowledge and insights. This kit helps youth-serving organizations to conduct their own YPAR studies with youth participants.

In Louisville, a city defined as much by its vibrant pockets of cultural joy as its deep-seated geographic lines drawn across class and race, Mahogany Mayfield moves with the quiet confidence of someone who knows exactly where her roots are anchored.

CAUSE is a base-building organization committed to social, economic, and environmental justice for working-class and immigrant communities in California’s Central Coast. Born of two separate organizations...

OBI Director john a. powell and Assistant Director Stephen Menendian contributed a chapter to a new edition to the book, Social Stratification, that looks at the causes inequality, why it is increasing, and how to reduce it. john and Stephen's...

OBI Director john a. powell and Assistant Director Stephen Menendian have co-authored a chapter for a new book, titled, Fostering Belonging and Equity in the Classroom and on Campus. Their contribution is the concluding chapter which looks...

Annamaria Olsson founded Give Something Back to Berlin over a decade ago, working on migration, integration, and countering xenophobia. Her current project, Stories from the Beauty Parlor, grew out of a single conversation in a Berlin salon and has...

This October, participants in the Othering & Belonging Institute’s conference in Louisville will have the opportunity to visit La Minga Cooperative Farm in Prospect, Kentucky. The off-site experience offers a concrete place from which to explore what...

What does belonging in governing actually entail? This paper aims to identify concrete strategies for furthering belonging through collaborative governance, particularly for individuals in government roles who are actively seeking new ways to engage constituents more deeply than conventional, transactional forms of public engagement allow.

Around the world, communities and organizations are developing strategies to confront the weaponization of gender and build a future rooted in belonging and pluralistic democracy. In this special subseries of Who Belongs? from the (En)Gendering...

Around the world, communities and organizations are developing strategies to confront the weaponization of gender and build a future rooted in belonging and pluralistic democracy. In this special subseries of Who Belongs? from the (En)Gendering...

There is no agreed upon 'start date.’ For what seems like an eternity, we have fallen witness to a constant and unprecedented attack on our democracy. It is not enough to decry the recklessness and lawlessness of the trump presidency, a spineless and sycophantic congress, and the carte blanche immunity that the nation’s highest court has granted the executive. Our nation is in the midst of a Constitutional crisis, and law schools need to adopt an attitude of 'No Business as Usual’ to offset the creeping normalization of daily democratic dismantlement and instill courage into efforts seeking to reverse the damage.

New " Participatory Infrastructure " initiative aims to operationalize Structural Belonging in order to realize safe, equitable, responsible, socially beneficial AI. BERKELEY: The Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at UC Berkeley and the Global...