HJR35 Summary

• Commends Angela Y. Davis for her significant contributions to social justice through activism and scholarship in economic, racial, and gender justice.

• Recognizes her extensive academic career as a Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC-Santa Cruz, and her teaching positions at San Francisco State University, Mills College, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Vassar, Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University.

• Acknowledges her authorship of nine books and lectures throughout the United States and internationally, with recent work focusing on incarceration, criminalization, and prison reform, including publications such as "Are Prisons Obsolete?" and "Abolition Democracy."

• Notes her founding membership in Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex, and her affiliation with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Australia.

• Honors her upcoming recognition by the Birmingham Chapter NAACP for the 50th Anniversary of the Alabama Civil Rights Movement.