RTI Fellow Program Distinguished Lecture Series: Promoting Racial Justice through Belonging and Targeting Universalism with professor john a. powell

[Note: This event has been rescheduled from September 26.]

Living in today’s world means confronting difficult societal issues, including racialization and fear of the other, against a backdrop of outside forces like extreme climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of coming together, society seems to be fracturing and hardening into smaller and smaller factions in ways unthinkable a few years ago.  

Speaker john a. powell, director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, will offer a new lens to better understand these problematic issues during the next installment of the RTI Fellow Program Distinguished Lecture series. Professor powell will focus on the concepts of targeted universalism and bridging in service of belonging. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, he will explain how to apply these concepts to increase equity without exacerbating tension between groups, creating better outcomes for all.