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  • Impact Story
  • February 26, 2026

Impact Story: Belonging isn’t a soft feeling - it’s a hard practice

Make the Road Nevada Deputy Director Blanca Macias: “People often ask why bridging matters in a time of deep division. My answer is simple: because democracy will collapse if we only talk to “our people.”
  • Blog
  • February 23, 2026

Blog: Lies, Propaganda, and Culture: “Truthtellers” in the Authoritarian Populist Era

I was walking around Barcelona when Melania Trump’s gaze suddenly greeted me on the side of a bus shelter. Disoriented by the sight of the US first lady in the heart of Catalonia, I moved closer and realized it was an ad for her documentary. I had...
  • Impact Story
  • February 10, 2026

Impact Story: Learning to bridge before I had the words for it

Orange County organizer Blandy Morales traces her journey from fighting for community space as a child in Fullerton to building bridges and cultivating belonging in the same neighborhood today.
  • Press Release
  • February 10, 2026

Study: Hispanic Americans made progress in wealth & employment, but fell behind in infant mortality

BERKELEY, CA: Hispanic Americans have made significant progress in recent decades in the areas of median home value, wealth accumulation, and employment when compared to their white counterparts, according to new research released Tuesday by Othering...
  • Publication
  • February 3, 2026

Building Bridges and Climbing Hills in the OC

OCCCO, the Orange County Congregation Community Organization, has a vision for Orange County, California: to be a place where all people live with dignity and thrive. Their campaign, Anaheim is Our Home, is an invitation for the city of Anaheim to be...
  • Impact Story
  • February 2, 2026

Impact Story: Power of Bridging in Action

Othering and Belonging Institute’s Bridging for Democracy project, a coalition of grassroots organizations across the country, started listening to people. What they are finding is an antidote to authoritarianism.
  • Blog
  • January 29, 2026

Belonging in a time of state violence

Othering and Belonging Institute Director john a. powell reflects on the killings by ICE agents in Minneapolis: “When we accept othering as a justification for violence, we normalize a system where belonging becomes conditional — and no one is truly safe. Humanity struggles to survive in such an environment. Democracy cannot.”
  • Blog
  • January 27, 2026

This is what fierce, organized love looks like

In Minnesota, in the face of fear and violence, we see courage and connection. Where systems and politicians seek to divide, there are networks of support. Where terror attempts to isolate, a powerful multiracial movement of neighbors have responded...
  • Blog
  • January 2, 2026

I don't believe in hope. But I do believe in you

As we welcome back the return of the light and a new year, it is a time to reflect, to celebrate, to mourn, to plan and to take stock. For me, 2025 brought many wonderful gifts and also many challenges. These gifts and challenges were — and are —...
  • Press Release
  • December 19, 2025

California adopts OBI opportunity map for the 9th consecutive year

BERKELEY: The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC) has adopted the opportunity map developed by the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) and its partners, California Housing Partnership and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation for...
  • Podcast
  • October 24, 2025

Real Solutions

Welcome to Real Solutions, a special 8-episode podcast series from the Othering & Belonging Institute featuring people leading efforts across the country that show what bold policy solutions would move the country towards belonging and wellbeing for...
  • Publication
  • December 10, 2025

Asia-Pacific Just Transitions

This white paper documents how local and regional organizations are confronting these challenges and shaping pathways toward just transitions that are not only low-carbon but also equitable, locally grounded, and reparative. Conducted by the Global Justice Program (GJP) at the Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley...
  • Press Release
  • December 10, 2025

Asia–Pacific Organizations Advance Reparative Just Transitions Across Diverse Local Contexts

BERKELEY: Across the Asia–Pacific region, communities are responding to the escalating climate crisis by reorganizing their social, economic, and environmental systems away from fossil fuel dependence and toward equitable, reparative, and...
  • Video
  • December 2, 2025

Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love

On Dec. 2 we hosted Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan to present on their new book, Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love. The authors talked about their research into the Advance Peace gun violence prevention...
  • Publication
  • December 2, 2025

Visualizing Belonging without Othering

This graphic illustration serves as a meaning-making tool, outlining the foundational components of building for belonging and the practices that enable it within projects and places. Illustration by Wenjia Tang. Click here to download the full-size...

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  • May 20, 2026, 16:00 - 18:00 UTC / 9:00am - 11:00am PT

Worldmaking in Motion

Join an interactive online workshop exploring the political economies and geographies of climate-related (im)mobilities and environmental injustices. Through a series of global maps, we will collectively examine how climate change, extraction, supply chains, migration, displacement, dispossession, environmental harm and global inequality intersect across space.
  • Blog
  • September 2, 2025

Our policy on publishing blog & opinion pieces

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...