Hannah Appel is associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. She is also associate director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, where she leads the Future of Finance research stream. A participant in Occupy Wall Street, she went on to conspire with comrades to found the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtors union. Find out more @strikedebt, @ChallengeIneq, and @ucftp.