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john a. powell began his keynote address with a comment on anxiety. In California, he said, whites are no longer the majority, nor even the largest plurality. For many people, this creates “tremendous anxiety.” “But how people process that anxiety is...

Following the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, 30 US governors demanded that President Obama stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees to their states. Unsurprisingly, federal judges have ruled these demands unconstitutional. Since then...

Malo Hutson is an associate professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, Associate Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, and a faculty member of the Haas Institute’s Diversity and Health Disparities cluster. He spoke...

Women have been problem solvers as long as women have existed. The representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields—known as STEM—is a problem that not only has not been solved, but also needs better solutions. And it’s...

This is the feature article of our Fall 2015 newsletter. Download full issue here. He pays taxes, volunteers in his community, and is gainfully employed, but still his voice remains unheard. Although today he could be on a politician’s reelection...

Food justice advocates, community organizers, and members of the UC Berkeley community came together at the campus Multicultural Community Center on April 28 to attend the release of the Haas Institute’s newest report on food justice and community...

This was originally posted on the Economic Policy Institute blog. In June, the Supreme Court rescued the Fair Housing Act from a claim that it prohibited only overt discrimination—where a government body announces that it is enacting a housing policy...