Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
OMCA’s Spotlight Sundays is excited to introduce Community Conversations, a new series in partnership with The Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI). This new series of conversations will create a space to foster public dialogue and engagement around emerging community topics. The program's first installment explored the topic of Reclaiming Democracy, Building Belonging.
The panel included John A. Powell, Director of OBI and Professor of Law, African American and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; Ernestine Nettles, President of the League of Women Voters; and Olivia Richardson Feldman who is the Co-Chair of the Oakland Youth Commission. The panel was moderated by Amani M. Nuru-Jeter Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology at UCB, School of Public Health. The program kicked off with opening remarks from former Congresswoman and now Mayor of Oakland, Barbara Lee. The interactive experiences were led by performances from the OBI Belonging Residency Company, with Sarah Crowell and Sangita Kumar.
Build Belonging Together. Visit the Oakland Museum of California – OMCA for short.
w: museumca.org
ig: @oaklandmuseumca
fb: @museumca
e: hi@museumca.org
a: 1000 Oak St., Oakland, CA 94607
OMCA’s Spotlight Sundays is excited to introduce Community Conversations, a new series in partnership with The Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI). This new series of conversations will create a space to foster public dialogue and engagement around emerging community topics. The program's first installment explored the topic of Reclaiming Democracy, Building Belonging.
The panel included John A. Powell, Director of OBI and Professor of Law, African American and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; Ernestine Nettles, President of the League of Women Voters; and Olivia Richardson Feldman who is the Co-Chair of the Oakland Youth Commission. The panel was moderated by Amani M. Nuru-Jeter Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology at UCB, School of Public Health. The program kicked off with opening remarks from former Congresswoman and now Mayor of Oakland, Barbara Lee. The interactive experiences were led by performances from the OBI Belonging Residency Company, with Sarah Crowell and Sangita Kumar.
Build Belonging Together. Visit the Oakland Museum of California – OMCA for short.
w: museumca.org
ig: @oaklandmuseumca
fb: @museumca
e: hi@museumca.org
a: 1000 Oak St., Oakland, CA 94607
