Videos

Nicole Montojo, a housing researcher at the Haas Institute, and Stephen Barton, former Housing Director for Berkeley, present their new report on the housing crisis, titled " Opening the Door for Rent Control: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to...

On September 17, 2018, Director john a. powell participated in the Southern California Grantmakers Conference on Our Common Humanity. The conference focused on strategies the philanthropic sector can employ to generate systemic change for the...

OBI Assistant Director Stephen Menendian explains the importance of considering race in university admissions. Transcript: Stephen Menendian: I'm Stephen Menendian, the assistant director and director of research at the Haas Institute. What's at...

Listen to researchers Nadia Barhoum and Eli Moore explain the Haas Institute's approach to Community-Engaged Research. Learn more on this page. Transcript: Nadia Barhoum: My name is Nadia Barhoum. I'm a researcher at the Haas Institute for a Fair and...

Michael Omi, an associate professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, presents a June 6 talk on "Racial Classification, Colorblindness, and the Instability of Race."

This video features a joint talk by Haas Institute Director john a. powell and American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks at an event organized by the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, on Thursday, May 3 in Washington, DC. powell is...

Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented the targeted universalism policy framework before the California Assembly's Blue Ribbon Commission on Early Childhood Education on May 3 at the capitol building in Sacramento, California. He explained...

On April 19, 2018 Director john a. powell presented a keynote address at the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania symposium in Harrisburg. View a copy of his presentation slides here.

Our eight-minute film, Transforming California from Red to Blue: How Community Organizing Changed the Political Landscape, directed by Bay Area director Tracey Quezada, looks at how California activists, like Eva Patterson, Marqueece Harris-Dawson...

Video from the Annual Spencer Lecture at AERA: " Dreaming an Ambitious Future for Public Education" A moderated panel discussion of key questions to be considered when envisioning an ambitious future for public education. Moderators: Na’ilah Suad...

Enjoy the collection of videos of all speeches, panels, and performances from the "Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 Conference."

By Gerald Lenoir and Serginho Roosblad California is currently leading the resistance against the current Trump administration. And that’s not new. The state has a reputation for being the most progressive state in the union. Important social and...