Bruin Bridge-Builders Fund: Overview and 2025-26 Grant Highlights

  Cylin Wang used her Bruin Bridge-Builders grant to attend a TED conference in Atlanta, harnessing her learning to revive TEDxUCLA in 2026. Photo courtesy of Cylin Wang. By Hannah Park, Dialogue across Difference Student Intern The…
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BKI Hosts Third Annual Impact Symposium

Stories of Light: Student-led interfaith dinner gives Bruins a night of storytelling

Attendees share their unique spiritual journeys. Photo by Hannah Park. By Hannah Park, Dialogue Across Difference intern On April 22, 2026, I hosted Stories of Light: an interfaith dinner dialogue centered around storytelling. Students,…
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Congratulations to our undergraduate interns!

BKI is proud to be home to six fantastic undergraduate interns. We are pleased to share three distinguished recent accomplishments from some of them below. Congratulations to: Aaden Poyuzina for his feature on UCLA Newsroom, where he…

Undergraduate Research Week at the Kindness Institute

Human Connection, Communities, and Conflict Research Roundtable During last week's Undergraduate Research Week, the Bedari Kindness Institute hosted a student research roundtable on Human Connection, Communities, and Conflict. Students…

Initiative to Study Hate Partners with LA County on efforts to understand and mitigate identity-based hate

Over the past year, UCLA researchers from the Initiative to Study Hate (ISH) and the Bedari Kindness Institute (BKI) partnered with the LA County Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion (ARDI) Initiative on a collaborative effort examining…
Salma Mousa a political science professor talks empathy, soccer and how little people know about the Middle East

UCLA Newsroom features ISH and BKI Researcher and BKI Faculty Advisory Committee Member Professor Salma Mousa

The Pollical Science professor talks with the UCLA Newsroom about her work on increasing empathy and reducing discrimination through soccer, and how little people know about the Middle East. Read the article here.
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Compassionate Conversation: UC Berkeley Professor john a. powell promotes bridging and belonging

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By Hannah Park On Wednesday, April 15, the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute (BKI) welcomed Professor john a. powell, director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and author of The Power of Bridging as the final…
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Audience Reflections: Feb. 24 Multifaith Compassionate Conversation

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On Tuesday, Feb. 24, the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute (BKI) welcomed distinguished religious leaders Father Greg Boyle, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Valarie Kaur and Imam Dr. Jihad Turk to a multifaith panel as part of BKI’s “Compassionate…