

And good morning to all of you who are joining us from the United States and from earlier times of the day. Good afternoon and good evening to everyone who's joining us from this side of the world and later time zones. I'm beaming in to you today from Athens, Greece. I'm Rachelle Galloway-Popotas and I work for the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California in Berkeley. Welcome to today's Toward Belonging livestream. Rachelle Galloway-Popotas: Hello, everyone. Details about this initiative and all future events in this series at /towardbelonging. And a spoken word performance from Muneera Pilgrim, poet, cultural producer, writer, broadcaster, and co-founder of Poetic Pilgrimage. Mathieu Lefèvre, CEO and a co-founder of More in Common Abdul-Rehman Malik, journalist, educator, and cultural organizer, Yale Divinity School and Yale University Council of Middle East Studies. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley Catherine Fieschi, Director of Counterpoint UK, a comparative political analyst and author. This event featured a conversation with: john a.
