Video: Rucker Johnson on why school integration works

Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, and a member of the Haas Institute's Educational Policy and Economic Disparities research clusters, presented his new book, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works , at an event in...

Video: Building Belonging in a Time of Othering, with john a. powell

Haas Institute director john a. powell gives a keynote talk on how a belonging paradigm can reshape our world for the better, with an introduction by The California Endowment''s Tony Iton, on April 9, 2019 at the Othering and Belonging Conference...

Racial Equity in Service to Collective Impact and Movement Building

In 2006, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a Winston-Salem based philanthropic organization, called on several civic engagement and advocacy groups to have facilitated dialogues about progressive reform strategy. Initially referred to as the “Aqueduct...

2019 Annual Summit for the North Central Accountable Community of Health

On April 12, 2019, Professor powell gave two keynote speeches at the 2019 Annual Summit for the North Central Accountable Community of Health in Moses Lake, Washington. The goals of the Summit were to advance whole person health, to create a shared...

In Discussion with Christine Wong Yap

Christine Wong Yap became the Haas Institute’s first ever Artist in Residence in the fall of 2018.

Book Review: The Lies That Bind

Just as a spate of books on economic inequality erupted in the first half of this decade, culminating in Thomas Piketty’s dense, but readable blockbuster tome, Capital in the Twenty-First Century , there has been a furious burst of scholarship...

Unfinished Business

Boasting a reputation as a progressive stronghold and a sanctuary state, Californians pride themselves on inclusive cultural attitudes and regard their state as a hub of the “resistance” to the Trump administration’s exclusionary policies. Yet...

A Message from Director of the Haas Institute

“OTHERING AND BELONGING” and “Targeted Universalism” are two of our most potent frameworks, and in the last year, we have made a decisive move towards more deeply articulating and implementing them as conceptual frameworks and applied policy...

A Message from the Associate and Faculty Director of the Institute

This past year, the Haas Institute’s faculty research clusters greatly increased their research and programming efforts to promote social equity and respond to emerging critical issues related to social inclusion. One of the year’s major...

Perspectives from the Sixth Summer Fellowship Cohort

The Haas Institute welcomed its sixth cohort in 2018 to take part in the annual Summer Fellowship, a 14-week program where fellows work directly with Institute staff on a range of projects to gain experience in and exposure to work around belonging...

Gender Studies Scholar Eric Stanley on Trans Visibility and Resistance

A Q&A with Eric Stanley

Local Views

The Haas Institute's new Civic Engagement Narrative Change project aims to build a more inclusive “we” in civic and political life, for a democracy in which everyone can participate, be counted, and belong. The project operates through collaborations...

Spring 2019 News Magazine

Podcast: The Stakes for the 2020 Census with Michael Omi and Stephen Menendian

In this episode of Who Belongs? we discuss the topic of the US Census with Professor Michael Omi, who is an affiliated faculty member of our Institute, author of Racial Formation in the United States, and one of only a handful of experts on the US Census.

Grow Your Vote

Download this report here. View the Cultural Strategy Ambassadors video by Barni Qaasim here. In the 2018 midterm elections, narratives of inclusion and exclusion went to battle. In the preceding years, politicians trumpeted bold and explicit...

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Bridging Partnerships for Scaling Housing Justice

Register now Housing justice for all. To truly be for all, we need housing solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building...

Blog: Gender, Goosebumps, Grace, and Grieving

Julia McKeown's tattoo inspired by the poetry of Andrea Gibson. “When I left my body I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” From Love Letter From the...