Savannah Shange is assistant professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and also serves as principal faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies.  Her research interests include abolition, multiracial coalition, ethnographic ethics, gentrification and Black femme gender.  She earned a PhD in Africana Studies and Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a MAT from Tufts University, and a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.  Her first book, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke 2019) is an ethnography of the afterlife of slavery as lived in the Bay Area.  At home in Oakland, she is a member of the Black Organizing Project & also serves on the advisory board of Black Feminist Future.