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\nAbout Angela Davis
\nThrough her activism and scholarship over many decades\, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world.&nbs p\; Her work as an educator &ndash\; both at the university level and in t he larger public sphere &ndash\; has always emphasized the importance of b uilding communities of struggle for economic\, racial\, and gender justice .
\nProfessor Davis&rsquo\; teaching career has taken her to San Fra ncisco State University\, Mills College\, and UC Berkeley. \; She also has taught at UCLA\, Vassar\, Syracuse University the Claremont Colleges\ , and Stanford University. \; Most recently she spent fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Pr ofessor Emerita of History of Consciousness &ndash\; an interdisciplinary Ph.D program &ndash\; and of Feminist Studies.
\nAngela Davis is the author of ten books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe\, Africa\, Asia\, Australia\, and South America. \; In r ecent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social pr oblems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization o f those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimin ation. \; She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial\, after being pla ced on the FBI&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Ten Most Wanted List.&rdquo\; \; She a lso has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race\, gender and imprisonment. \; Her books include Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?\, and two books of essays entitled The Meaning of Fr eedom\, and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson\, Palestine\, and the Foundations of a Movement. Her most recent books include a re-issue of An gela Davis: An Autobiography and Abolition. Feminism. Now.\, with co-autho rs Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie.
\nAngela Davis is a fo unding member of Critical Resistance\, a national organization dedicated t o the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. \; Internationally \, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside\, an abolitionist organization ba sed in Queensland\, Australia that works in solidarity with women in priso n.
\nLike many educators\, Professor Davis is especially concerned w ith the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to the pri son system than to educational institutions. \; Having helped to popul arize the notion of a &ldquo\;prison industrial complex\,&rdquo\; she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a w orld without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movemen t.
\nAbout Jenn White
\nA seasoned journalist and podcast host\, she has
worked in public radio since 1999. She joins us from Chicago&rsquo\;s WBE
Z where she has held several on-air positions\, as host of the station&rsq
uo\;s local two-hour midday show\, Reset with Jenn White\, and before that
as host of The Morning Shift. \;
She is also a familiar voice on several WBEZ podcasts\, including Making Oprah\, Making Obama and 16 S hots\,which chronicled the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald and th e trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. Before WBEZ\, White was the local host of All Things Considered at Michigan Radio.
\nJenn is also skilled as a public speaker and has moderated numerous on-air gubern atorial and mayoral debates. A native of Detroit and graduate of the Unive rsity of Michigan\, she moved to Washington\, D.C. with her husband and tw o dogs in 2020.
\n\nWomen's History Month at DC Public Library
\nThe DC Public Library is celebrating women's history month based on the theme "Celebrating the Women Who Tell Our Stories." This theme honors all women\, trans women and femme individuals who have made it their life' s work to capture our stories and reflect them back to us with their words \, their art or their actions. Stories are one of our most important tools of resistance. Stories help us reflect on our past for a better understan ding of our present. Stories shine a light on the changemakers and glass c eiling breakers. Stories inspire us to join hands in solidarity to pursue justice. There is infinite power in stories\, in who gets to tell them\, w ho they are told about and who gets to hear them.
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