Angela Davis
Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and a PhD in philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin. Her work as an educator has always emphasised the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. She is the author of ten books, including _Are Prisons Obsolete?_and Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement. She is a distinguished professor emerita of history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.