Thank you for your investment in the university, in our country, and in me 1 Professor john a. powell Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Executive Director and The Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion University of California, Berkeley

The Challenges & Opportunities of Diversities

Diversity & Democracy Educational Disparities LGBTQ Citizenship Religious Diversity Disability Economic Disparities Diversity & Health Research Clusters 3

Research Government Communications Translation to change frame Sharing Community input Non-university based research UCB & system Wide Relationships Direct service and organizing Institutions The Network 4

Diversity in the United States As a fact, the United States is richly diverse place U.S. Census estimates that of the approximately 310 million Americans, there are: – 230 million Whites – 40 million Latino/as – 35 million Black or African American – 16 million Asian Americans – 4 million Native American – 3 million Arab Americans U.S. Census Bureau,

2008 population estimates: – 54 million people have a disability – By age: 5 percent of children 5 to 17 have disabilities 10 percent of people 18 to 64 have disabilities 38 percent of adults 65 and older have disabilities 2008 American Community Survey, 6 Diversity in the United States

7 Apr-2011.pdf Percent and number of adults who identify as LGBTQ

Challenges & Opportunities of Diversity “ One of the most important challenges facing modern societies, and at the same time one of our most significant opportunities, is the increase in ethnic and social heterogeneity in virtually all advanced countries” “The central challenge for modern, diversifying societies is to create a new, broader sense of ‘we’.” Putnam, R. “ E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century— The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture.” Nordic Political Science Association, 30.2 (2007): 1. 8

Limitations of Diversity What work does diversity do? What are its limitations in aiming for fairness, inclusion, and equity 9

Social Cleavages in Our Society 10

Putnam’s Vision of Diversity To develop “bridging social capital” networks” that are both “outward looking and accompany people across diverse social cleavages” Source: Putnam, Robert D., 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. 11

Our Vision of Diversity Diversity + Equity Diversity + Inclusion Diversity Where Social Cleavages Disappear 12

13 Implicit Bias / Mind Science Structures/ Institutional Arrangements Power Our Approach

Some people ride the “Up” escalator to reach opportunity Others have to run up the stairs to get to opportunity The Context of Opportunity Matters

Targeted Universalism Structural Inequity produces consistently different outcomes for different communities. Targeted Universalism responds with universal goals and targeted solutions VS. Targeted Universalism Structural Inequity ©2012 Connie Cagampang Heller

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