About
The We Know How To Party is a consciousness and culture project curated by Annie Xibos Spencer, PhD.
Annie Xibos Spencer was born in North Philadelphia and grew up in
Venice, Florida. They studied economics and international studies at
New College of Florida and Latin American political economy at La
Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Their undergraduate honours
thesis on the role of the IMF in the Argentine Peso Crisis earned
them a job at the World Bank Institute where they worked as a writer
and program evaluator while obtaining a MA in International Trade
and Investment Policy at George Washington University. Spencer spent
two summers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a fellowship where she studied
Bengali language and culture at the Independent University of
Bangladesh and learned from eco-feminist agrarian movement, Naya
Krishi Andolon. Spencer was an active participant in Occupy Wall
Street and a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and
STRIKE Debt. They have also done mutual-aid harm reduction work and
organised on the opioid epidemic and against state abandonment of
people who use drugs in Maine. In 2020 they completed a PhD in human
geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate
Center, where they won the 2017 Provost’s Award for Scholarship in
the Public Interest and the 2016 Revolutionizing American Studies
dissertation award. Spencer was a doctoral fellow with the Center
for Place, Culture and Politics and the Mellon Committee on
Globalization and Social Change. They have taught economic
geography, economics and cultural studies at Hunter College CUNY,
the University of Southern Maine and Bates College. They live in
Sweden. Their first book How to Break an Addiction will be out
Spring 2024 with Common Notions Press.