Hannah Appel is co-founder of Debt Collective, Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at UCLA.
Her work spans debt abolition, housing justice, racial capitalism, climate justice, and anthropology. We spoke about a range of topics — from the root of the housing crisis to organizing for college that isn’t just free, but freeing.
Hannah recently helped publish a report From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: Debtor Organizing in the Fight for Climate Repair. The report isn’t just an in-depth study, it is also a powerful teaching tool. Be sure to read the introductory excerpt.
Lastly, Hannah will be speaking tomorrow as part of our Jubilee School Series on divesting the university from state violence. University investments (like endowments and pension funds) profit from state violence–weapons manufacturers, private prisons, surveillance technology, and more. This discussion will focus on University of California Move Your Money campaign, and what it might take to begin the process of divesting higher education from state violence.
