Who Belongs?
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Who Belongs?
Who Belongs? was launched in Fall 2018 as the Othering & Belonging Institute's official podcast. The question of who belongs in our societies, whether local, national, or global, is one of the central drivers that underpin how people are othered, or how the conditions of belonging are created. Our p...
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60 episode
EP 58 - Belonging Without Othering: A conversation with john a. powell and Stephen Menendian
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from OBI Director john a. powell and Assistant Director Stephen Menendian about the recently released book the...
EP 57 - Land, Culture, and Belonging: Place-based Community Advocacy
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 56 - Leaning into Paradox: How We Can Block, Bridge & Build Our Democratic Future Together
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 55 - Democracy in Crisis: The Courage to Re-Humanize One Another
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 54 - Using Data to Advance Belonging without Othering
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 53 - Expressions of Belonging
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 52 - Xenophobia, Resistance, and the Future of the Immigrant Rights Movement
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 51 - Resisting Austerity: Keeping Public Infrastructure Public
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 50 - Bridging Through High School Ethnic Studies
This episode is part of a series of talks and panel discussions recorded during the breakout sessions of our Othering & Belonging Conference that took...
EP 49 - Does Integration Close Racial Disparities?
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Darrell Owens, who is a policy analyst at California Yimby, and a writer on Substack who focuses on housi...
EP 48 - Building Bridges Over the Hills
In this episode, we speak with Sharon Dunn and Gwen Johnson — two members of Hands Across the Hills (HATH), a grassroots group working to build bridge...
Cultures of Care, ep. 2 | Naima Green and Rich Medina
Welcome back to Cultures of Care, a special new miniseries from Who Belongs? hosted by Evan Bissell and Giovanna Fischer. This series celebrates peopl...
Cultures of Care, ep. 1 | Nicki Jizz and Kristina Wong
In this episode of Who Belongs?, we're debuting Cultures of Care, a special new miniseries hosted by Evan Bissell and Giovanna Fischer. This series ce...
EP 47 - Returning Citizens
In this episode we speak with two of the founding members of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, the President Desmond Meade and the Political D...
EP 46 - Co-creating a future where everyone belongs
In this episode we speak with Reverend Ben McBride. Ben McBride is a spiritual leader and longtime activist for peace and justice in the Bay Area. McB...
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 Be...
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 commu...
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 com...
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 C...
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 an...
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 Pea...
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...
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...
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 dia...
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 area...
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...
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 a...
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...
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 Islam...
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...
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...
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 ha...
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...
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 transf...
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 Gh...
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 studi...
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...
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...
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...
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 pan...