A fireside chat with Dr. Kimberly Budil, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as part of the Russell Women in Science Leadership Lecture Series at Northeastern Oakland. Dr. Budil will discuss LLNL’s mission and core scientific capabilities, her leadership approach as the Lab’s first woman director, and LLNL’s impact across the Bay Area and California. She shared insights from LLNL’s historic 60-year journey to fusion ignition, offering a compelling perspective on her own career path in science and the opportunities…

Click here to register. Dr. Tajali’s research at RJI adopts a research justice framework to examine the tensions between women’s political agency and entrenched power structures. Focusing on women’s leadership in pro-democracy movements in various Muslim-majority contexts, it analyzes the gendered backlash they face in their organizing, rooted largely in a conservative gender ideology. This analysis foregrounds feminist resistance in some of the world’s most authoritarian contexts, while also underscoring a recurring political pattern: during moments of rupture—uprisings, transitions, or…

Join PhD student Sei Jung (College of Arts Media and Design for a work-in-progress talk about her museum collection-based research project for the Mills Institute and Mills College Art Museum Collaborative Fellowship.

Join the Womanist team at a release party in conjunction with the publication of their 2025-2026 issue. Meet the authors and the project editors, learn how to contribute to future issues, and hear contributors share their work.

Click here to register, Join us for a showcase of the Research that our Research Justice at the Intersections Scholars have accomplished in 2025-2026. The Research Justice at the Intersections (RJI) Program at the Mills Institute at Northeastern, Oakland, fosters social justice-oriented research and groundbreaking critical analysis by creating an interdisciplinary community of scholars. RJI scholars consider new forms of knowledge production that challenge traditional research hierarchies, mobilize the leadership of those directly affected by the investigated phenomena, and acknowledge…

Click for video. On November 6, 2025, the Mills Institute hosted a celebration on the Northeastern Oakland campus to honor the vision, impact, and partnerships that have defined our journey since 2023. This special day brought together students, faculty, scholars, alumni, community partners, and friends from near and far to reflect on our achievements, share bold ideas for the future, and strengthen the connections that fuel our mission. Guided by this year’s research theme, Solidarities, we celebrated two years of…