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Abolitionist scholar & justice advocate

Angela Davis

Angela Davis helps organizations understand systemic inequality and reimagine justice through abolitionist frameworks. Davis works with global audiences on prison reform, racial justice, and feminist activism, bringing decades of scholarship as professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz and founder of Critical Resistance.

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Angela Davis's biography

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  • Scholar and professor of race, gender, and class
  • Activist who popularized the prison industrial complex
  • Author and founding member of Critical Resistance
Angela Davis is a writer, activist, and scholar whose work has reshaped how millions of people understand the connections between prisons, race, gender, and class. Davis is professor emerita of history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of ten books, including Freedom Is a Constant Struggle and Abolition. Feminism. Now. She is also a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex. Davis helped popularize the concept of the "prison industrial complex," giving audiences a framework to understand how economic and political forces drive mass incarceration. Her decades of research and organizing across multiple continents, including work with Sisters Inside in Australia, allow her to connect local struggles to global patterns of inequality and offer concrete alternatives to punitive systems. Audiences leave Davis's sessions with a clearer understanding of how race, gender, and class shape criminal justice policy, practical frameworks for rethinking public investment in policing and incarceration, and historical context that makes today's abolition movement intelligible rather than abstract. Book Angela Davis to bring intellectual rigor and moral urgency to conversations about justice, equality, and social transformation.

Why we recommend booking Angela

Davis brings decades of scholarship on the prison industrial complex and systemic inequality, offering audiences historical context and practical frameworks that make abolition work tangible rather than theoretical. Her research across continents and founding role in Critical Resistance gives her unusual credibility to connect local justice challenges to broader patterns of structural change.

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