Who Belongs?

Latest Episodes:

EP 2 - Nicole Montojo and Stephen Barton on Rent Control Oct 09, 2018

Show notes

In this episode of Who Belongs? we interview Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton, who recently co-authored a new research brief on the housing affordability crisis in California, called "Opening the Door for Rent Control: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting California’s Renters." Nicole is a housing research analyst at the Haas Institute. She holds a Master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley. Steve is a former housing director for the city of Berkeley who holds a PhD in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley. Find the report, along with a summary, press release, presentation video, and other resources, here: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/opening-door-rent-control

For a transcript of the episode, please click here: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/podcast-nicole-montojo-and-steve-barton-rent-control

EP 1 - Gordon Whitman Breaks Down Community Organizing Sep 27, 2018

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In this first episode of Who Belongs?, we talk to Gordon Whitman, who is the deputy director of Faith In Action, formerly known as PICO, which is a national network of faith-based organizations working to build civic leaders to uplift communities through work on a broad set of issues. Gordon recently published a book on organizing, called ‘Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire’. The book, which is available in both English and Spanish, draws from his 25 years of experience as a community organizer in different parts of the country, as well as from a year abroad in Chile during Pinochet dictatorship, where Gordon says he learned the most important things about organizing. Learn more about Gordon's book here: https://standupbook.org/ To watch a video of a book talk Gordon gave at UC Berkeley visit this page: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/gordon-whitman-pico-conversation-john-powell

For a transcript of the episode, please click here: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/podcast-gordon-whitman-breaks-down-community-organizing

EP 0 - Ralf Hotchkiss on the Hazards of Standard Wheelchairs Aug 04, 2018

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Back in March we met with Ralf Hotchkiss, a renowned disability rights activist, engineer, and co-founder of the Whirlwind Wheelchair project, based here in Berkeley. The non profit works with local wheelchair riders and mechanics around the world to design and construct durable chairs that bring riders back into society in ways that standard US and European chairs don’t allow, because of their poor designs which severely limit peoples’ mobility. The interview was conducted by Marc Abizeid from the Haas Institute. Learn more about Ralf's work at Whirlwind Wheelchair here: https://whirlwindwheelchair.org/ And read a profile about him here: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/reinventing-wheelchair Intro song: "Traction by Chad Crouch" Outro song: "Wide Eyes by Chad Crouch"

For a transcript of the episode, please click here: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/podcast-reinventing-wheelchair-interview-ralf-hotchkiss