Savannah Shange

Savannah Shange is a Black queer feminist scholar and educator. She is currently associate professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz where she also serves as principal faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She earned a PhD in Africana Studies and Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a MAT from Tufts University, and a BFA in Experimental Theater 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. She is a proud alumni of BYP100 and is currently working in collaboration with organizers to document and amplify the practice of abolition in everyday life.