In honor of Black History Month, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion invites the campus community to educator, author, and activist Angela Davis's presentation, "The Indivisibility of Justice" as part of the Diversity Lecture Series. Book signing and reception to follow.

Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. She is currently distinguished professor emerita of history of consciousness and of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Davis is the author of nine books and has lectured extensively around the world. Most recently, her work has centered on the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.

In her work she draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List." 

Her most recent books are Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete? about the abolition of the prison industrial complex, and a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. This fall she will publish a new collection of essays entitled The Meaning of Freedom.

Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.