Angela Davis

Angela Davis is an American academic, author, and philosopher who was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and studied at Brandeis University, the University of Frankfurt, and the University of California, San Diego, where she earned a master's degree in 1968. She started teaching philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969 and later taught ethnic studies at San Francisco State University before joining the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1991, where she led the feminist studies department and retired in 2008, and is a distinguished professor emerita. Her books include Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Women, Race and Class (1981), and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), and she features in documentaries such as The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) and 13th (2016). She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.