In partnership with local and national community-based organizations that continue to lead the way to shape abolition – groups like Critical Resistance, Black & Pink, Love & Protect, Parole Illinois – Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP) is kicking off two years of programming with two events featuring key thinkers in conversation about teaching and learning, cultural work, and abolition.
Join us and learn from local and national organizers, cultural workers, educators, and scholars who are building radical teaching and learning pathways for currently and formerly incarcerated communities, sustaining crucial campaigns for freedom, and creating more just and beautiful communities.
Panelists: Angela Davis, Beth Richie, Kathy Boudin, Timmy Chau
Angela Davis
An author, activist, educator, and Civil Rights icon, Davis has authored 10 books that cover race, feminism, class, and the U.S. prison system including If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, Women, Race and Class, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, and Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Professor Angela Davis, distinguished professor emerita of History of Consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is an author of ten books. A political activist, scholar, educator, and founding member of the Critical Resistance, she continues her work focusing on social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. An international lecturer known for powerful speeches and dialogue about injustice, Professor Davis has been involved in movements for social justice worldwide. Since the early 1970s, she continues to address racial injustice and social equity on an internationally recognized platform.
