john a. powell at the Marin Equity Summit

On November 9th, 2017, professor john powell gave a keynote address at the Marin Equity Summit. The Summit was centered around youth development and solutions to homelessness in Marin County. john's keynote address focused on expanding the circle of...

Blog: The Geography of Islamophobia

November 8, 2017 By Rhonda Itaoui 2017 Summer Fellow Just months after the brutal murder of American Muslim Nabra Hassanen, who was assaulted and killed in June 2017 in Virginia, it has become more urgent than ever to interrogate the exclusion of...

Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Announces Inaugural Class of Fellows

Twenty-nine advocates, organizers and artists selected from across the US and South Africa to tackle anti-Black racism and white supremacy Contact: Lucille Renwick lrenwick@fenton.com 917-326-2643 NEW YORK, NY — The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity...

Blog: Ensuring Fair Shares of Housing Across Local Jurisdictions

By Heather Bromfield and Eli Moore California has been in the national headlines in recent months because of its bafflingly high housing costs, which are unaffordable even to some of the highest income earners. In the Bay Area, where a booming tech...

john a. powell on how bridging creates conditions to solve problems

In this short video, our director john powell talks about the concept of bridging—engaging with people outside of our own familiar group, including with those who hold opposing political views.

Video: john a. powell brings Belonging to Bioneers

john powell in his keynote at Bioneers, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. (Photo: Nikki Ritcher. Courtesy of Bioneers) Carrying his message of belonging to the 28th Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, Haas Institute Director john a. powell urged an...

Erin Kerrison looks at the failings of drug treatment in prisons

In an Oct. 20 talk as part of the Haas Institute's Research to Impact series, Erin Kerrison from UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare, presented on “The Costs and Benefits of an addiction Diagnosis: A Critical Look at Racial Disparities in Prison-Based Drug Treatment Rhetoric Buy-in.”

'Screw consent': Joseph Fischel reexamines how sex and pleasure are governed

In his October 19, 2017 presentation titled “Screw Consent: Horses & Corpses, Kink & Cannibals,” Joseph Fischel, an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Yale University, discussed the current investment in the juridical...

On spirituality and belonging: a conversation with Sonali Sangeeta Balajee

Balajee poses for a photo at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA What does spirituality have to do with belonging? What are we missing when trying to identify the root causes of suffering and inequity? How do we remedy collective suffering as a...

OBI publishes chapter in fair housing book

The Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed at a time of turmoil, conflict, and conflagration in cities across the nation. The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate: to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns...

Video: New Bay Area mural humanizes housing crisis

(Photo credit: Vanessa Yang) A powerful new mural informing renters of their rights was unveiled this month on the facade of a building in Richmond, CA, as part of a Haas Institute-affiliated program. The "Know-Your-Rights" mural, located on 23rd St...

Video: A European Crisis, or a humanity crisis?

Elsadig Elsheikh, the head of the Global Justice Program at the Haas Institute, presented, on Oct. 10, on his recent report on the global refugee crisis, titled " Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration." The talk, hosted by the Center...

America Can't Fix Poverty Until It Stops Hating Poor People

“Hell is other people,” famously wrote the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre at the close of his 1943 play No Exit. While for Sartre this was a philosophically sophisticated point, in America today it has become simply the way we increasingly...

How distinct ethnic groups became 'Hispanics'

Cristina Mora, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and member of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Democracy cluster, presented earlier this month on her book, Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American.

New study recommends probation as alternative to prison

Convicted felons who receive prison sentences are far more likely to end up back behind bars at a later time than those who were handed probation sentences for similar crimes, a new study published this week in a high-profile journal finds. The study...

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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...