David Lloyd is a professor of English at the University of California Riverside and has been involved with CSU since 2011. As well as a teacher, he’s a poet and playwright and has been involved in several social justice movements, from divestment against apartheid to Irish political prisoners’ rights. He is currently also on the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (usacbi.org) and a member of the Pacifica Radio collective for South and West Asia and Northern Africa Region that produces KPFK’s weekly SWANA Region Radio show (https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/swana-region-radio/). Having grown up in Ireland, he has written extensively about the Irish famine, food policy and hunger in the context of colonial capitalism.
