The culminating speaker of the Motherhood/Race/Class series and the highlight of Emory's celebration of Women's History Month was Angela Y. Davis, professor at UC Santa Cruz. Davis' commitment to prisoners' rights dates to her own imprisonment in 1970. Davis calls prisons "agents of sexual assault" against women and notes that in the current "incarceration epidemic," states "stupidly" spend triple the amount to jail each prisoner than they devote per student in public schools. Davis is co-founder of a prison-industrial complex-abolition organization and a champion off the "multitudes of nameless women whose efforts have brought social justice to the forefront in the U.S." Her advice is: "work with contradictions, build movements and push for broader meanings of freedom."