Pay what you can! “Portals to Asian American Community Mobilization: Dance and Dialogue” - In Person - today! @ 8pm in SF. With Karthick Ramakrishan, Ben Wang of @asianhealth818, Colleen Lye, and SanSan Kwan.Sponsored by @apicc_sf  @sfac Zellerbach Fam Fnd  @aapidata bit.ly/Portals2025

Hybrid: W, April 30 @ 4:30PM - “How Local Organizations Shape U.S Education” - Jose Eos Trinidad, Gloria Lee, Karling Aguilera-Fort. Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Research on Social Change, @berkeley_educ, CSEASUCB, Oxford University Press bit.ly/launchSW

Rescheduled! Hybrid: M, May 12 @ 4pm - "The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building." Chelsea Ebin - Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Co-sponsored by BCSR bit.ly/Ebin2025

Breaking Barriers, Building Community, In-person: Weds, 5/7, 11-5:30 - mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/b…

Hybrid: M, May 12 @ 4pm - "The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building." Chelsea Ebin - Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Co-sponsored by BCSR bit.ly/Ebin2025

Video now available of "Sticking Together in Tough Times", a talk by dean spade and Mia Birdsong who discuss Dean's new book Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell, Together. Algonquin Books youtube.com/watch?v=xUMowH…

excited to read this new article by our alum Karen Villegas! "English that Works: Unsettling Literacy Sponsors in Adult Literacy Education" in the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies ejecs.org/index.php/JECS…

tmo! Breaking Barriers, Building Community, In-person: Weds, 5/7, 11-5:30 - mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/b…

Hybrid: M, May 12 @ 4pm - "The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building." Chelsea Ebin - Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Co-sponsored by BCSR bit.ly/Ebin2025

Video now available of "Legacies of Asian Diasporic Radicalisms:" a talk by JM Wong, who discusses the Equality Society (Pingshe), a grassroots labor formation based in San Francisco Chinatown in the 1920s-30’s. Josh Moss, UC Berkeley AAADS, IEAS youtube.com/watch?v=s2KRn6…

illuminating talk by Chelsea Ebin on the Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. Ebin's book, The Radical Mind, offers a new explanation for the recent gains of the Christian Right and the morally supercharged political landscape we face today.

Colleen Lye was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2025 AAAStudies Excellence in Mentoring Award. AAAS noted that "testimony from her previous students demonstrated the extent to which Dr. Lye mentored her students’ growth & cultivated their passions. aaastudies.org/awards/aaas-aw…

Elora Shehabuddin, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, discusses her research on Muslim Bengali women’s activism & her work to help students gain in-depth knowledge about the world around them. ls.berkeley.edu/news/global-st…

Christian Paiz, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, has been named a recipient of the 2025 David Blackwell Award for his tremendous impact on the college. ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkel…

CRWS student Tyler Leeds looks at the impact of canceled funding & new directives for art orgs. He says the right frames these moves as a return to "sanity," presenting their vision for cultural institutions as commonsense while ignoring voters' needs. news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/16/exe…

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