Samir Gambhir

Program Manager
Equity Metrics,Inclusiveness Index

EMAIL

samirgambhir.2@gmail.com

Areas of Expertise

Samir Gambhir works as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) researcher and manager of Opportunity Mapping program at the Othering & Belonging Institute. He has more than 9 years of experience in the field of mapping, spatial analysis and web-GIS. He has research experience in the areas of social justice, racial equity, planning, health and business, with a focus on human geography. Prior to joining the Othering & Belonging Institute, Samir worked as GIS Manager for Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), Toronto. Prior to CGHR, he worked as Senior GIS Researcher at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University under john’s leadership. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning. He holds a Bachelors degree in Architecture from India.

NEWS

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Press Release: Most metros in the US have become more segregated since 1990
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2021 BERKELEY, CA: More than 80 percent of metropolitan regions in the United States have become more segregated in recent decades despite policy efforts aimed at promoting integration, with the most highly segregated areas located in midwestern and mid atlantic...
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2020 Covid Index
Study: Vermont ranks best in Covid-19 response. Globally, US ranks near bottom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2021 BERKELEY, CA: Vermont, Alaska, and Maine were the three most effective states in responding to the coronavirus pandemic last year, a new analysis by UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute has found. The institute created an index to measure the...
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Report: Single-family zoning dominates Bay Area housing, presenting barrier to integration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2020 BERKELEY, CA: Opening up restrictive communities to multiplex housing may be a key strategy to promote racial residential integration in the Bay Area, new research from UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute released Tuesday suggests . The report, the...
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2019 Inclusiveness Index Highlights Anti-trans Violence, Fake News, and De-democratization as Key Challenges to Inclusion in US and World
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 18, 2019 BERKELEY, CA: The Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway took the top spots in the 2019 Inclusiveness Index , our annual ranking of global inclusion that classifies 132 countries and all 50 US states according to policies and laws that challenge or promote belonging...
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map of Oakland illustrates that 67 percent of all residential land is zoned for single-family homes, and prohibits denser housing options. And 27 percent of all land in Oakland is zoned strictly for single family homes.
Single-Family Zoning in the San Francisco Bay Area
Editor's note (August 17, 2020): The author's have completed and published the full set of zoning maps and the accompanying Part 5 segregation report referred to at the end of this article By Stephen Menendian & Samir Gambhir In mid-June, the New York Times published ten zoning maps of major...

REPORTS

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The Roots of Structural Racism Project
Updated: June 30, 2021 By Stephen Menendian , Arthur Gailes , and Samir Gambhir 1 - Download a PDF of this report Project Summary The Roots of Structural Racism Project was unveiled in June 2021 after several years of investigating the persistence of racial residential segregation across the United...
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2020 Inclusiveness Index
Vermont, Alaska, and Maine were the three most effective states in responding to the coronavirus pandemic last year, a new analysis by UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute has found. The institute created an index to measure the performance of all 50 states and 172 countries primarily...
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The Most Segregated (and Integrated) Cities in the SF Bay Area
By Stephen Menendian, Arthur Gailes, and Samir Gambhir In 2018, we launched a project investigating the extent, harm and solutions to racial residential segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area . Including the research phase, this project took more than two years to complete. Although our research...
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Racial composition and single family zoning.
Single-Family Zoning in the San Francisco Bay Area
By Stephen Menendian , Samir Gambhir , Karina French , and Arthur Gailes Introduction As part of our series on racial segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, we examined the relationship between restrictive zoning (and single-family zoning in particular) and racial residential segregation. That...
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Zoning map of the Bay Area
Racial Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 5
By Stephen Menendian , Samir Gambhir , and Arthur Gailes * Introduction Racial segregation remains the key driver of racial disparities in education, health care, housing, and employment. This five-part series investigates the persistent problem of racial residential segregation in the San...
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VIDEOS

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Video: "The Roots of Structural Racism" Segregation Project Launch Event
On Tuesday, June 22 we hosted a half-day forum with fair housing advocates and leading race and housing scholars from across the United States for the unveiling of " The Roots of Structural Racism ," our groundbreaking new project which details just how widespread and harmful racial residential...
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