john a. powell: Dance Like You Matter in an Intra-Related World | Bioneers

john a. powell, an internationally recognized authority in civil rights and liberties, structural racialization, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy, one of the world’s most important thinkers and scholars on civil and human rights, Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at U.C. Berkeley. He holds the Gregory H.Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the University’s College of Law. He founded the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota; was National Legal Director of the ACLU; co-founded the Poverty & Race Research Action Council; and has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia.