UC Davis Health Presents: Growing as a Community: Why healthy humans need belonging

Join UC Davis Health on Wednesday, February 14th, from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. PST, and hear from john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

This powerful webinar will explore the following aims:

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of bridging and belonging and their counterparts of bonding and breaking/othering.
• Apply concepts of bridging and belonging to cases and exercises, and intentionally draw from experience to ensure vibrant, diverse discussion.
• Develop a nuanced understanding of how historical perspectives shape the current landscape of research and academia.

Featured guest:

• john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously the Executive Director at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, and prior to that, the founder and director of the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. john formerly served as the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is a co-founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the boards of several national and international organizations. john led the development of an “opportunity-based” model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment and is well-known for his work developing the frameworks of “targeted universalism” and “othering and belonging” to effect equity-based interventions. john has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University. His latest book is Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.

This event is sponsored by the UC Davis MIND Institute and the Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center.

Register Here