Annie Powers

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Annie Powers

Graduate student

Email: anniepowers@ucla.edu

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Biography

Annie Powers is a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness – and poor people’s urban land struggle – in the US and the world. Annie is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union.

Field of Study

United States

Subfield

History of housing and homelessness, history of revolutionary movements

Research

Dissertation on the National Union of the Homeless and the struggle for urban land, 1985-1993 and beyond

 

Advisor(s)

Robin D. G. Kelley

Degrees

  • BA, History, UC Berkeley (2011)
  • MA, History, UCLA (2014)