From 1979 to 2003, she was a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. In 1995, in the course of the campaign to demand the liberation of Mumia Abu-Jamal, she cofounded the Radical Philosophy Association (RPA) anti-death penalty project, an organization intended to help educators become a driving force towards its abolition. She was also a member of the Academic Association of Africa Scholars (ACAS) and among the voices generating support for the struggles of students across the African continent and in the United States. In 1990, Federici co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), and, with Ousseina Alidou, was the editor of the CAFA bulletin for over a decade. In 1972, with Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, she co-founded the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the campaign for Wages for Housework. She also taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. Silvia Federici (born 1942) is a scholar, teacher, and feminist activist based in New York.
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