Hannah Appel’s research, teaching, and organizing focus on transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; and anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements. She teaches anthropology, global studies and critical development studies at UCLA, where she also serves as Associate Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, leading the Future of Finance research stream. Hannah is also a co-founder and co-director of the Debt Collective–the nation’s first debtors union. Recent publications include The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: the case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition, and “Tenant, Debtor, Worker, Student.”