Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is a writer, documentarian, and co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. She is the author of numerous books, including Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, and Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea (co-authored with Leah Hunt-Hendrix). She is on the editorial team of Hammer & Hope.

Progressive International

Astra Taylor is member of the Council of the Progressive International.

YDSA Winter Conference preview call

Biden has the power to cancel ALL student debt with a stroke of his pen, but he won’t do it without a movement to force his hand. Join us on Friday, February 5 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT for a panel on how YDSA and other organizations are building that movement on campuses and in communities across the country. This is a preview event for the 2021 YDSA Winter Conference — A Better World is Possible.

Panelists include Astra Taylor, Emmaline Bennett, Luke Herrine, and Melezia Figueroa.