Applications open for 2025 Summer Fellowship
3-month virtual fellowship runs May 14 to August 14. Deadline to apply is January 12. |
Applications for the Othering & Belonging Institute's 2025 Summer Fellowship are now open! The fellowship is a paid research experience for individuals seeking to develop their research skills by engaging with OBI’s multidisciplinary research, analysis, policy, and strategic narrative work. The fellowship is a great opportunity for undergraduates, Master's students, and early Ph.D. candidates to work on a research project with an OBI mentor. The fellowship will be entirely virtual.
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Audition for Belonging Resident Company
The Belonging Resident Company (BRC) is holding an audition to bring in new members on Wednesday, January 29 from 7 to 10pm in Oakland. BRC is a performance ensemble dedicated to making the revolution of belonging irresistible. It activates radical imagination through engaged facilitation, contemporary and hip hop dance, dance/theater, and playback theater, to foster embodied experiences of belonging and dismantle systems of oppression.
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Listen to this 10-minute excerpt from last week's discussion between OBI Director john a. powell and mindfulness teacher and author Jon Kabat-Zinn on powell's new book, The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong. In this excerpt Director powell offers a framework for building connection across differences through the practice of bridging. To hear the full discussion you'll need to sign up for a membership with Sounds True One (first month is free).
Director powell launched The Power of Bridging earlier this month in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan at Wayne State University. We hope to have a recording of the talk to share with you in a future newsletter, but for now we're including a photo from the event below. |
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70% of Californians now believe in human-caused climate change
More Californians than ever recognize that global climate change is driven by human activities, according to a recent statewide survey we commissioned over the summer. Comparing results from a past survey commissioned in 2017 to the most recent survey, there was a 9 percentage-point increase (61% to 70%) in the share of Californians who believe global climate change is caused “mostly by human activities.” |
California reapproves OBI opportunity map for 2025
The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC) has reapproved the use of an opportunity map our Equity Metrics team developed with our partners, California Housing Partnership and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, for 2025. The purpose of the map is to advance two specific Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) objectives - increasing access to opportunity and replacing segregated living patterns with integrated and balanced living patterns.
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The New York Times cited our national segregation research in a Nov. 19 article, titled, "Why ‘Affordable Housing’ in New York City Can Still Cost $3,500 a Month."
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Our explainer video on structural racism helped inform this new essay published in the Democracy Journal, titled, "Consciousness-Raising and Its Limits."
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The Minnesota Star Tribune earlier this month published an interview with OBI Director john a. powell about his new book, The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong. “What bridging says is, ‘Let’s take the time to be curious about each other. It’s not saying we agree with each other. It’s not even saying we like each other. It’s saying it’s basic human dignity to have curiosity. We’re trying to see each other’s humanity," the article quotes Director powell as saying.
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Separately, but on the same topic, you can listen to a KQED podcast interview with Director powell here. In it, powell discusses the opportunity to co-create structures which leave no group behind. “Can we bring in black people without pushing out white people? That’s the challenge,” he says.
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New bridging course for UC Berkeley students
Hello Cal students 👋. Do you still have space in your schedule for next Spring? Check out the Bridging & Belonging Course offered by the Campus Bridging Project through the Ethnic Studies Department!
In this class, we will work to integrate the core concepts of bridging and belonging (as well as their counterparts of bonding and breaking/othering) into understanding the work being done on Berkeley’s campus and the possibility of the work to come. The course will offer opportunities for students to develop their own understandings of bridging and belonging, learn about student groups and campus orgs already doing some of this work, and build towards their own implementation and analysis of the course concepts in real-world contexts.
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If you missed our Othering & Belonging Conference in Oakland this past April, here's your chance to grab some exclusive swag we had designed just for the event. Grab your Belonging-themed apparel before they run out from our O&B Conference merch store. This merch is separate from our regular merch store which sells our standard items.
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Did you know that we offer free, online courses? Check out our virtual learning platform, OBI University (OBIU). It's home to a community of nearly 8,000 learners and is growing every day, so why not join them? OBIU offers interactive courses on the key frameworks of othering and belonging, a four-part crash course on bridging, a primer on structural racism, and more — all led by friendly human guides. We are cooking up an exciting new course on targeted universalism too.
Over the past few months, we dug into john powell and Stephen Menendian's Belonging without Othering as a community in our virtual book club, and we are planning another one to accompany The Power of Bridging in February 2025. Sign up now for free! |
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Together, we can make belonging the norm, not the exception. – The Othering & Belonging Institute |
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