Angela Davis — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Serves as Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Co-founded Critical Resistance in 1997, an organization dedicated to abolishing the prison–industrial complex.
Was twice the Communist Party's candidate for the Vice President of the United States during the 1980s.
Holds a PhD in Physics and conducts research on Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) thin films and their properties as smart materials.
Active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
Studied at Brandeis University, the University of Frankfurt, the University of California, San Diego, and the Humboldt-University of Berlin.

Biography

Dr. Angela Davis is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author, and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied at Brandeis University, the University of Frankfurt, and the University of California, San Diego, also completing some doctorate studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.