Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: China Study Abroad Program for STEM Students

In 2014 the CBCF launched its China Study Abroad program to help expand learning and professional opportunities for African-American students in an era of increasing globalization. The CBCF Emerging Leaders: US-China Study Delegation is designed to...

Othering, Belonging, and the Construction of Self

On February 28, at the 6th annual Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, California, Berkeley Law Professor and Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, john a. powell, participated in a panel discussion entitled “Expanding...

Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) Job - Summer 2015

Berkeley Food Institute, Haas Institute, and Goldman School of Public Policy Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) Job Description* Summer 2015 Posted March 15, 2015. Applications due April 15, 2015. To apply, submit a cover letter, CV and writing sample...

Food Justice Forum

On February 21, 2015, the Haas Institute participated in an all-day Food Justice Forum organized by Holy Names University in Oakland. The program brought together social justice activists, high school and college students, educators, and community...

Press Release: New Research Report on Richmond Housing

HAAS INSTITUTE PUBLISHES REPORT ANALYZING CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS AND HOUSING IN RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute finds patterns of gentrification in some Richmond neighborhoods, and an overall drop in the city’s African American...

Transportation Equity: A Brown Bag Lecture at the Haas Institute

Date: March 11, 2015 Time: 12:00p .m. - 1:30 p.m. Location: 460 Stephens Hall The Haas Institute will welcome two transportation experts to talk about two of the major transit systems in the United States and issues for 21st century equity in...

Shelby County v. Holder: What’s States Rights Got to Do With it?

With respect to civil rights, this term at the Supreme Court has the pall of a funeral. Advocates and supporters of civil rights are grimly preparing for what is likely to be a series of (hopefully) narrow losses from Affirmative Action to Voting...

Bowman v. Monsanto: The monopoly over the global food system

On February 21, 2013, the Supreme Court heard legal arguments on Bowman v. Monsanto in what is sure to become a landmark patent and intellectual property case in the United States. The case involves the giant seed agrichemical company Monsanto vs. a...

It’s not George Zimmerman, It’s the System

March 4, 2015 By Stephen Menendian As I wrote over a year ago, the “tragedy of Trayvon Martin perfectly captures this nation's deepest race problems, and yet almost no one is talking about what those problems really are.” The trial itself, the media...

The Importance of Inclusive Extracurricular Activities

By: Amariah Hash and Stephen Menendian On January 25, 2013, the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued new guidance for primary, secondary, and university educators on providing inclusionary athletic opportunities for...

Perspectives on the Critical Race Theory Conference: Using Critical Race Theory in Legal Practice

Critical race theory has been around since the 1980s, yet few law schools provide courses on this crucial body of scholarship. While “Critical Race Theory” is a course taught at Berkeley Law, it is not offered every year. For example, I have never...

Reflections on the Critical Race Theory Conference

Critiquing the legal system for not taking into consideration the voices of marginalized communities has been long overdue, and still most law school campuses lack a Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) course. This conference, therefore, offered an...

The Supreme Court to Weigh in on Gay Marriage

In late March, the Supreme Court will have an opportunity to weigh in on the question of gay marriage under the federal Constitution in two separate cases. First, the Court will hear oral argument on the issue of whether the equal protection clause...

john a powell discusses the intersection of mindfulness and empathy at Wisdom 2.0

by Haas Institute Communications Fellow Sara Grossman Speaking to an audience of more than 2,000 in San Francisco, Haas Institute Director john a. powell underscored the importance of fostering a society that places greater value on mindfulness and...

john a. powell speaks at 4th Annual "Spaghetti Dinner for the 99%"

Haas Institute Executive Director john a. powell spoke to the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Feb. 28 at the 4th Annual "Spaghetti Dinner for the 99%." The theme of the event was Black Lives Matter! and featured speeches from...

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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...