College should not only be free, it should be free-ing. In other words, higher education should not incarcerate anyone with either a debt sentence or a prison sentence. And yet, university investments (like endowments and pension funds) profit from state violence–weapons manufacturers, private prisons, surveillance technology, and more. Join us to learn about the University of California Move Your Money campaign, and what it might take to begin the process of divesting higher education from state violence.

• Hannah Appel is a co-founder and organizer with the Debt Collective, as well as the Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at UCLA. She is also an economic anthropologist interested in transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements. Her research and teaching interests are guided by the economic imagination. What does it mean to understand racial capitalism ethnographically, and to work actively to undo it?

This session is a part of the larger Jubilee School: College for All series.