john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, was previously Executive Director at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, and prior to that, founder/Director of the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. john, who serves on the boards of several national and international organizations, formerly served as the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); co-founded the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia. His latest books are Belonging Without Othering, How We Save Ourselves and the World and The Power of Bridging, How to Build a World where we all Belong.