Angela Davis, an activist known for her radical politics during the Civil Rights Movement, and decades-long work in prison reform and feminism, is visiting the East Bay campus next week for an evening of discussion.

The free event will be held on Monday, February 11th at 5 p.m. at the University Theatre and is open to the public. Pioneer WebTV will also stream it live online at http://www.pioneerwebtv.com.

The author of multiple books, including “Women, Race and Class” and “Are Prisons Obsolete,” is known for her political activism starting in late 1960’s and joining the Black Panther Party of Los Angeles. Later she identified with communism, and ran as the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party on the ticket in 1980 and 1984.

Quoted from her website, Davis comments on the value of activism; “I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”

Emerging from segregated Birmingham, Ala. where she was born, Davis received her Bachelors at Brandeis University in Mass., then made her way out to California, where she attended the University of California, San Diego for her Masters and finally to Humboldt University for her Ph.D.

Davis has been and still is an advocate for racial and gender equality and prisoner’s rights and reform. She is currently a professor at UC Santa Cruz, teaching courses in history consciousness and feminist studies.