On June 20, 2024 OBI director john a. powell gave the George H. Frederickson Lecture at the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2024 Social Equity Leadership Conference in Stamford, Connecticut. In light of recent attacks on DEI initiatives...
See our playlist below which includes all our videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference, which took place April 25-27 in Oakland, CA! To select a video from the playlist click on the button in the top right corner of the video player...
OBI director john a. powell was the keynote speaker for the launch of Belonging Colorado, an bold statewide initiative that aims to bring together Coloradans across lines of difference in order to foster greater belonging across the state so that all...
Register here Reimagining Urban Planning is a monthly series of public webinars that focuses on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. Traditionally Urban Planning has had a long legacy of harming communities of color, developing and...
In this June 4 "Edges in the Middle" discussion OBI Global Senior Fellow Bayo Akomolafe engages with author, sociologist, and environmentalist Ashish Kothari to discuss the sociomaterial, political, spiritual, and civilizational events shaping our...
This report culminates a six-year investigation into restrictive land-use policies in California — namely single-family residential zoning — and their ramifications for racial residential segregation, affordable housing, and life outcomes. Single-family zoning accounts for over 95% of total residential land area in the state.
BERKELEY, CA: A stunning 95.8 percent of all residential land in California is reserved for single-family housing, effectively barring denser housing options in those areas and creating an obstacle to racial and economic equality in the state, a new...
In this multi-part series, we join an analysis of a novel database of municipal zoning reform efforts across the United States with an argument for the necessity of a tenant-inflected zoning reform, as a method and approach to ground future zoning...
Creating structures for belonging or a belongingness policy agenda, while necessary, is also insufficient. As important as many of these structural interventions may be, in some respects they remain too shallow. Such structures are necessary ballast...
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...
On April 6th, the Social Cohesion Lab and the Campus Bridging Projected hosted Depolarization Day. Participants learned more about the principles of bridging , engaged with documentaries that encouraged them to expand their own perspectives, and...
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell, edited and developed with the Othering & Belonging Institute's Rachelle Galloway-Popotas. We don't want to...
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging. We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race...
Social housing has come to encompass a variety of programs and financing schemes, but all fundamentally move away from a reliance on private, for-profit motives driving housing insecurity. In 2023, California will launch a study of social housing in...
The climate crisis and mass incarceration are two crises that have shared roots and affect many of the same communities, yet are often talked about and organized around as separate issues. What connects them? How can we talk about them in ways that resonate and advance solutions to both?
Join us to celebrate the launch of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects with co-author and artist Chris E. Vargas alongside two artist-activists and contributors to the book, Ralowe Ampu and Craig Calderwood. This fantastic panel will be moderated by Professor...
On September 25th, john gave the keynote address at Forefront Annual Summit. Forefront is a statewide association that represents Illinois’ grant-makers, non-profits, as well as their advisors and allies. john touched on topics of othering and...
