Who Belongs? A Podcast on Othering & Belonging

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The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, community stakeholders, policymakers and communicators to identify and challenge the barriers to an inclusive, just and sustainable society and create transformative change. The Institute serves as a national hub of a vibrant network of researchers and community partners and will take a leadership role in translating, communicating and facilitating research, policy and strategic engagement.

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EP 45 - Co-Creating Public ...

12.08.2021

In this episode we interview with Debbie Lacy. Debbie is the founder of Eastside for All, which serves communities outside of Seattle, WA including Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah and Sammamish. Eastside for All has a mission to transform East King ...

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12.08.2021 EP 45 - Co-Creating Public Spaces of Belonging In this episode we interview with Debbie Lacy. Debbie is the founder of Eastside for All, which serves communities outside of Seattle, WA including Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah and Sammamish. Eastside for All has a mission to transform East King ...
12.01.2021 EP 44 - Belong Circles In this episode we speak with Angel Mortel and Aleena Gonzalez. Angel is a lead organizer with LA Voice, which is a multi-racial and multi-faith community organization that awakens people to their own power and trains them to organize together. ...
11.24.2021 EP 43 - The Belong Movement In this episode we speak with Ashlin Malouf-Gashaw. Ashlin is the Chief Formation Officer at PICO California, the largest multi-racial faith-based community-organizing network in the state. PICO is leading The Belong Movement, which aims to address the polarization and racial ...
11.17.2021 EP 42 - Belonging in Oakland In this episode we speak with Roberto Bedoya. Roberto is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland in California. He developed the City’s Cultural Plan, titled, Belonging in Oakland. Throughout his career Roberto has consistently advocated for inclusion ...
11.10.2021 EP 41 - On being seen and heard: Students reflect on their high school experience In this episode we speak with Tamia Dantzler & Dashley Concepcion. Tamia is an alum and Dashley is a current student at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice. In a previous episode we spoke with Frances Lucerna, founding principal ...
11.03.2021 EP 40 - Belonging in Schools: The Story of El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice In this episode we speak with Frances Lucerna. Frances is the founding principal of El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice. El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice is a public school located in the Southside community of Williamsburg in ...
10.27.2021 EP 39 - Black and Native Folks in the Climate Justice Movement In this episode we interview two of the founding members of The Wind & The Warrior, Ife Afriye Kilimanjaro and Nana Korantema. In 2020, The Wind & The Warrior led a Sacred Waters Pilgrimage to connect Black and Native culture-bearers ...
10.20.2021 EP 38 - Looking to Belong: A Conversation with a Diaspora Dialogue Participant In this episode we interview Byb Bibene. Byb is a professional performer, choreographer, dance artist, director and dance educator originally from the Republic of Congo. Currently he lives in the Bay Area in California. Byb has participated in the African ...
10.13.2021 EP 37 - Different Histories, Parallel Stories: Bridging African American and Immigrant Communities In this episode we hear from Gerald Lenoir and Nunu Kidane about their work on bridging African American and African immigrant communities through dialogues. Gerald is OBI’s identity and politics strategy analyst and was the founding executive director of the ...
10.06.2021 EP 36 - Developing a shared vocabulary: Introduction to Othering, Bridging & Belonging In this episode we interview UC Berkeley Professor and OBI Director john a. powell. john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, democracy, and othering, bridging and belonging ...
02.26.2021 EP 35 - The economic case for a $15 minimum wage In this episode of Who Belongs? we look at the impacts of minimum wage increases with Michael Reich, a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley. The federal minimum wage has ...
02.04.2021 EP 34 - How ICE uses tech to target immigrants In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Jacinta González, an organizer with Mijente, a non-profit which leads campaigns to educate and organize around issues concerning immigration, detentions and deportations. Jacinta explains how ICE and other law enforcement agencies ...
01.09.2021 EP 33 - Storming the Capitol and the dilemma of Trumpism with john a. powell and Ian Haney López In this episode of Who Belongs?, we hear from three thinkers and members of the OBI faculty — john a. powell, Ian Haney López, and Emnet Almedom — on the situation unfolding in the wake of the Washington D.C. riots. ...
12.19.2020 EP 32 - The struggle against Islamophobia in France with Houria Bouteldja and Yasser Louati In this episode of Who Belongs?, we speak with two activists based in France — Yasser Louati and Houria Bouteldja — about the intensification of Islamophobia and state repression unfolding in the country following Samuel Paty's gruesome murder. Our guests ...
10.15.2020 EP 31 - 'A Kick in the stomach': Lara Kiswani and Theresa Montaño on Newsom's ethnic studies veto In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center based in San Francisco, and Theresa Montaño, professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge, to discuss ...
08.13.2020 EP 30 - Can social housing provide a solution to a looming mass eviction crisis? with Carroll Fife In this episode of Who Belongs?, we speak with Carroll Fife, an organizer, mother, and director of the Oakland office of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, also known as ACCE. Earlier this year, she was involved in coordinating ...
08.05.2020 EP 29 - Trump attacks fair housing: What does the end of AFFH spell for integration? Last week Trump announced he had eliminated an Obama-era fair housing rule put in place in 2015 to reverse patterns of residential segregation that have been in place for many decades. The move was widely seen as both an attack ...
07.28.2020 EP 28 - Settler colonialism, the insurrections of the 1960s, and today with Professor Gerald Horne In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of more than 30 books. Professor Horne has written on a spectrum of issues and ...
07.02.2020 EP 27 - Can we have a future without police? with Professor Erin Kerrison In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Erin Kerrison, an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, to discuss her thoughts on transforming social structures and imagining futures beyond police following the murder of George Floyd. Professor ...
06.23.2020 EP 26 - Why are people around the world knocking down old statues? Adam Hochschild explains In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Adam Hochschild, a prominent historian, journalist, and a best selling author who wrote King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, among many other books. He's ...
05.30.2020 EP 25 - "It's not just murder. It's terror." #GeorgeFloyd #Minneapolis In this episode of Who Belongs? we’re bringing back john a. powell, our director at the O&B Institute, and professor of Law and African American studies at UC Berkeley, to talk about the ongoing events in Minneapolis following the police ...
05.08.2020 EP 24 - Prof. john a. powell on the clash over shelter-in-place, and the murder of Ahmaud Arbery In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from john a. powell, a professor of Law and African American studies at UC Berkeley. He’s also the director of the Othering & Belonging Institute. In the interview professor powell offers historical ...
04.30.2020 EP 23 - Racism and COVID-19: The historical, political, and social foundations In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from a three-guest panel of Berkeley faculty who provide various perspectives on the different forms of racism we’ve been witnessing since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear about the experiences ...
04.22.2020 EP 22 - How this Bay Area food bank is responding to a surge in demand; with Alex Boskovich In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Alex Boskovich, who is the Government Relations Officer at the Alameda County Community Food Bank based in Oakland, which collects and distributes food and other resources to about 300 partner organizations ...
04.14.2020 EP 21 - ICE raids, farmworkers, & COVID-19 w/ Seth M. Holmes, Miriam Magaña López, and Vera L. Chang In this episode of Who Belongs? we’re looking at the reality facing undocumented immigrants and migrant farmworkers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear from three researchers who discuss some of their recent and upcoming articles that look ...
03.10.2020 EP 20 - Ian Haney López on Bernie Sanders and the Race-Class Message In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Ian Haney Lopez, a professor of law here at UC Berkeley, about his new book: “Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America.” The book puts forward the ...
01.24.2020 EP 19 - Surveying Black Women in Nevada with Erika Washington and Quintin Savwoir In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests, Erika Washington and Quintin Savwoir from a civic engagement group in Nevada called Make it Work - Nevada. In the interview they discuss a recent survey they conducted of ...
12.18.2019 EP 18 - 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery Initiative at UC Berkeley; w/ Waldo Martin & Denise Herd In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests about a year-long initiative at UC Berkeley marking the 400th anniversary of the start to slavery in North America. The initiative includes weekly events with scholars, activists, and artists ...
12.04.2019 EP 17 - Alicia Garza on Identity Politics and the 2020 US Presidential Election In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement and the principal of the Black Futures Lab, which is an organization that engages Black voters year round and ...
11.14.2019 EP 16 - Mobilizing Hard-to-Count Populations for Census 2020 In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Michael Gomez Daly, the director of the Inland Empowerment coalition, and Sky Allen, who is the coalition's census coordinator, about their efforts to mobilize people in southern California's Inland Empire ahead ...
11.05.2019 EP 15 - Journalist Lawrence Lanahan on Crossing Baltimore's Racial Divide In this episode of Who Belongs?, we hear from journalist and author Lawrence Lanahan about his new book called The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. The book weaves together three storylines about ...
09.19.2019 EP 14 - Voter Suppression, with Robert Greenwald and Carol Anderson This episode of Who Belongs? is another installment of our Civic Engagement Narrative Change project series, with project researcher Josh Clark interviewing two guests: The first is Robert Greenwald, an award-winning producer and director who has a new film coming ...
07.30.2019 EP 13 - Artist Christine Wong Yap on her Places of Belonging Project In this episode of Who Belongs? host Sara Grossman interviews Christine Wong Yap, who became the Haas Institute's first Artist in Residence in the fall of 2018, about her "Places of Belonging" project, which was recently featured in a KQED ...
06.17.2019 EP 12 - Prof. Agata Lisiak on Migration and Gentrification in Europe In this episode of Who Belongs? Sara Grossman speaks with Agata Lisiak, a professor of migration studies at Bard College Berlin, about her work on Eastern European migration to the Western Europe, the experiences of migrant mothers in particular, and ...
05.10.2019 EP 11 - Engaging Asian Pacific Islanders, with Luisa Blue of the SEIU In this episode of Who Belongs, we talk to Luisa Blue, who is the Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and an expert on Asian Pacific Islander civic engagement issues. She is also the highest ranking ...
05.08.2019 EP 10 - Targeted Universalism with john a. powell In this episode we hear from john a. powell, who is our director, and a professor of law and African American Studies here at UC Berkeley. In the interview we discuss a brand new primer we’ve just published on the ...
04.30.2019 EP 9 - Family Role in Prisoner Reentry, with Prof. David Harding In this episode of Who Belongs? we talk with Professor David Harding, who is a UC Berkeley Sociologist and member of the Haas Institute's Economic Disparities faculty research cluster, about a new book he co-authored called On the Outside: Prisoner ...
04.04.2019 EP 8 - The Stakes for the 2020 Census with Michael Omi and Stephen Menendian In this episode of Who Belongs? we discuss the topic of the US Census with Professor Michael Omi, who is an affiliated faculty member of our Institute, author of Racial Formation in the United States, and one of only a ...
03.05.2019 EP 7 - Abandonment in Detroit with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk, who have been working in a variety of capacities for equitable development and racial justice in Detroit for many years. Peter is a Professor of Law ...
12.19.2018 EP 5 - Hilary Hoynes on the Benefits and Limitations of Food Stamps (SNAP) In this episode of Who Belongs? Marc Abizeid talks to economist Hilary Hoynes about government assistance programs, including nutrition programs like SNAP, which is also known as food stamps, in addressing poverty and hunger in the United States. Hilary Hoynes ...
12.11.2018 EP 4 - Racial Justice Activism in Europe with Emilia Roig In this episode, Sara Grossman interviews Emilia Roig of the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ) in Berlin, Germany. Originally from France, Emilia is the founder and director of CIJ, a nonprofit working to combat intersecting forms of structural inequality and ...
10.29.2018 EP 3 - Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness with Elsadig Elsheikh and Nadia Barhoum In this episode of Who Belongs?, hosts Marc Abizeid and Sara Grossman interview two guests: Elsadig Elsheikh, who is the Director of the Global Justice Program at the Haas Institute, and Nadia Barhoum, who is a former researcher with the ...
10.09.2018 EP 2 - Nicole Montojo and Stephen Barton on Rent Control In this episode of Who Belongs? we interview Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton, who recently co-authored a new research brief on the housing affordability crisis in California, called "Opening the Door for Rent Control: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting ...
09.27.2018 EP 1 - Gordon Whitman Breaks Down Community Organizing In this first episode of Who Belongs?, we talk to Gordon Whitman, who is the deputy director of Faith In Action, formerly known as PICO, which is a national network of faith-based organizations working to build civic leaders to uplift ...
08.04.2018 EP 0 - Ralf Hotchkiss on the Hazards of Standard Wheelchairs Back in March we met with Ralf Hotchkiss, a renowned disability rights activist, engineer, and co-founder of the Whirlwind Wheelchair project, based here in Berkeley. The non profit works with local wheelchair riders and mechanics around the world to design ...