Here's where disparities have shrunk and grown for Hispanic Americans since 2000
We're excited to share the latest update to our Racial Disparities Dashboard today which, for the first time, shows the areas where Hispanic Americans have made progress, regress, or stagnated between the years 2000 and 2020. Our research shows that Hispanic Americans have made significant progress in the areas of wealth and employment when compared to their white counterparts. But on the flip side, the areas of infant mortality, life expectancy, voting and criminal justice have seen Hispanic Americans faring worse over the 20-year period measured in the study. The results of the study are displayed in a set of interactive tables here, and are summarized in our press release here.
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Listen to our Real Solutions Podcast FINALE
This 8th and final episode of our Real Solutions Podcast brings together speakers from some of the previous episodes to surface insights about cross-cutting challenges, opportunities, and strategies for advancing policy proposals to tackle some of the most pressing issues we face today. We explore narratives that link together the underlying values, visions for the future, and impact on everyday lives that those policy proposals have in common.
Our guests are Amit Khanduri from the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund; Cindy Black from Fix Democracy First; Ivan Luevanos-Elms from Local Progress; Moira Birss from the Climate and Community Institute; Michelle Perin from Willamette Valley Crisis Care; and Tony Samara from the Right to the City Alliance.
Listen to this and all of our episodes on our website here, or watch the video version of our podcast on YouTube. |
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'Learning to bridge before I had the words for it'
In our latest impact story, and the second from a series about our Bridging for Democracy project (B4D), we learn about Orange County organizer Blandy Morales' journey from fighting for community space as a child in Fullerton, CA to building bridges and cultivating belonging in the same neighborhood today.
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Blandy, who is the lead organizer with Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO), writes: "Bridging taught me how to slow down, to stay curious, to build relationships strong enough to hold disagreement without turning people into enemies."
You can read Blandy's impact story here, read more about OCCCO's "Anaheim is Our Home" campaign in our new memo here, and watch a replay here of last week's webinar from organizers involved with the B4D coalition talk about their bridging strategies.
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Join us for the Legacies of Eugenics Conference
We're excited to announce a 2-day conference in April we're co-organizing on the legacies of eugenics, happening here in Berkeley. Our gathering will bring together leading researchers from around the United States to explore the persistence of eugenic logics and practices in science, medicine, and technology, and how we can build a better future.
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Relatedly, read the latest piece from the Legacies of Eugenics essay series published this week in the LA Review of Books. This latest piece from the series, co-authored by two Yale scholars and one from UCLA, looks at how eugenic ideas linger in the institutions and practices of contemporary healthcare. Find all 12 essays from this series here.
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Event: How Authoritarians Weaponize Gender
Gender has become a pivotal battleground in many countries experiencing democratic erosion. Across regions, illiberal political leaders and parties are advancing narratives focused on traditional values, anti-feminism, and opposition to “gender ideology” to mobilize popular support. What is the relationship between gender and authoritarianism or illiberal politics? Why has gender emerged as a salient faultline in multiple contemporary cases of democratic backsliding?
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Join Saskia Brechenmacher, a senior fellow with Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance Program, for a conversation with the authors of (En)Gendering Authoritarianism, Tara Chandra, Míriam Juan-Torres, and Laura Livingston, to examine their new report examining how gender is deployed strategically by authoritarian leaders seeking to consolidate power—and the implications for defending and building inclusive democracies.
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We’re excited to share that the Othering & Belonging Institute is co-hosting the 2026 International School on Climate Mobilities (ISCM) with the Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC). The call for applications is now open. As climate change reshapes everyday life, it raises urgent questions about who is forced to move, who can stay, and who is supported in return and recovery. These are not only questions of migration, but of belonging—who is protected, whose ties to place are recognized, and whose options are constrained by policy and inequality.
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🗓️ Applications close: 28 February 2026 (11:59pm UTC) We hope you’ll consider applying and sharing widely within your networks. |
Join us on October 9-10, 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky for our next Othering & Belonging Conference! The conference will be an immersive, two-day gathering with over 1,500 people drawn from a diverse ecosystem of grassroots movements, research and academia, arts and culture, policymaking and government, philanthropy, business, among other sectors—united by a common purpose to securing inclusive, pluralistic democracies and building a bigger "we."
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Together, we can make belonging the norm, not the exception. – The Othering & Belonging Institute |
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