John A. Powell
Civil rights scholar and law professor
john a. powell is a civil rights scholar and law professor at UC Berkeley who leads its Othering & Belonging Institute. He is the author of The Power of Bridging.
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American Born 1947 in Detroit, United States
About John A. Powell
john a. powell is a law professor and civil rights scholar who works on race, structural racism and democracy. He leads the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion. Earlier in his career he was executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. He also founded the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota and served as national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He created two approaches to equity work, called targeted universalism and othering and belonging. He writes his name in lowercase because he believes people are part of the universe and not above it.