Join The Legal Aid Justice Center for an evening featuring legendary civil rights icon Angela Davis in conversation with the Legal Aid Justice Center's Executive Director Angela Ciolfi and moderated by Ted Howard, Pro Bono Partner at Wiley Rein.
About the Event
The Legal Aid Justice Center is proud to present a rare opportunity to hear from one of the most influential activists and scholars of our time. This free public event offers a unique chance to engage with Angela Davis's profound insights into critical issues of social justice, racial and economic discrimination, and systemic change.
The Speaker
Angela Davis is internationally known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. 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 equality.
Professor Angela Davis is the author of nine books and has lectured worldwide. Recently, a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. 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" for a crime she did not commit. She has also conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment.
Davis' most recent books are Abolition Democracy, Are Prisons Obsolete, and The Meaning of Freedom. She is a member of the executive board of the Women of Color Resource Center, a San Francisco Bay Area organization that emphasizes popular education-of and about women who live in conditions of poverty. She also works with 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.
