Annie Powers

Annie Powers is an organizer and historian whose work focuses on the political struggles of poor and homeless communities. Annie is a PhD candidate in History whose dissertation examines the National Union of the Homeless, the first formation of unionized unhoused people in United States history. They are Research Coordinator with the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, and their work emphasizes archiving and collectively learning from organized encampment communities. Annie organizes with poor housed and unhoused tenants as a member of Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union.