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Speaking on the first night of the 2017 Othering and Belonging Conference, and on the hundredth day of the Trump presidency, in a moment where “it feels like we might all fall apart," keynote speaker Jeff Chang told more than 1,100 conference...

by Derrick Duren In an effort to better understand different strategies for attaining communal preservation, the 2017 cohort of summer fellows visited several organizations currently working to combat gentrification practices in the San Francisco...

This piece was originally published in the 2017 Haas Institute newsletter. An interview with Richard Rothstein on how the US government enacted policies to produce and maintain segregation—and the effects of these policies today. Rothstein was...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.”

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...

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...

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...