Discrimination in the Bay Area

Stephen Menendian is the Assistant Director and Director of Research at the Othering & Belonging Institute, and he oversees many of the Institute's research initiatives and ongoing projects. In particular, Stephen leads the Inclusiveness  Index initiative, an assessment of global inclusivity, fair housing policy and opportunity mapping projects with the state of California and a recent investigation on the extent and harmful effects of racial residential segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephen's primary areas of expertise are structural racism, fair housing, affirmative action and educational equity, and civil rights law, but his research focuses on the causes and consequences of inter-group inequality ("othering"), and the disign of effective equity interventions under prevailing interpretations of law.