How can we not only talk about, but give birth to a society where everyone belongs? Eight days after thousands took to the streets in protest, grief, and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 The decision was announced this evening that a grand jury in St. Louis County would not indict Ferguson, MO police officer Darren Wilson for the August 9 shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. The following is a...
Seth M. Holmes is a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology and a member of the Haas Institute Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster . Holmes is the author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies...
October 14, 2014 In October, Haas Institute Director john a. powell led a webinar with The California Endowment about the importance of considering racial equity in conversations on health. Social Norms Change and Race examined how racial bias is...
November 11, 2014 On November 11, 2014, Haas Institute Director john a. powell presented the 8th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture at the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research in Louisville, Kentucky. Presenting to a standing-room...
Date: Nov. 12, 2014 Position: Program Fellowship Term: Winter The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund of San Francisco is offering a two year paid Program Fellowship at a starting annual salary of $70,000 , plus benefits, with substantial professional...
Date: Nov. 12, 2014 Position: Office Assistant Term: Fall 2014 The Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society’s (HIFIS) Administrative Management is seeking one student office assistant. We are looking for an energetic, organized and pro-active...
By Rasheed Shabazz | November 5, 2014 RICHMOND, CA – As a child, Pastor Donnell Jones remembers catching frogs in a creek not far from UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station near the Marina. As a young man, he remembers going to downtown Richmond for...
by Sara Grossman | November 6, 2014 Haas Institute director john a. powell began his speech Wednesday night with an unexpected analogy. “Race is a little bit like gravity,” he told more than 100 audience members at Berkeley’s St. John’s Presbyterian...
by Rasheed Shabazz | August 7, 2014 MINNEAPOLIS, MN–Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman co-hosted a convening of government and community leaders from throughout the country in Minneapolis on August 5-6 to strategize on...
By Sara Grossman | November 4, 2014 What is a good life? How should we live? How should we be in this world? What does it mean to exist? How do we alleviate the suffering that is present in so many forms? Scientists, scholars, artists, and thinkers...
MONTHLY BULLETINS OF ACTIVITIES: 2012-2014 The Haas Institute publishes a bulletin listing the activities from each month of the Haas Institute staff and faculty clusters. This page lists all monthly bulletins in 2012, 2013 and 2014, starting with...
This policy brief reviews recent scholarship from members of the Economic Disparities Research Cluster of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley and offers important insights as well as policy-based solutions in order to meet the profound challenges of income and wealth inequality and growing poverty now facing American society.
Vision for Baltimore (V4B) is a successful program at Baltimore City Schools (BCS) designed to provide annual vision screenings for all students and, when necessary, to provide follow-up eye exams and eyeglasses at no cost to families. Download PDF...
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...
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell. We don't want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness...
