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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this webinar, guest speaker Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, explores how discriminatory technology designs encode inequity, considers how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice, and how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. This session is co-sponsored by the Office of Global Diversity and Inclusion.
Friday, June 12, 2020.
Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the Just Data Lab, and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) among other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Professor Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more info visit www.ruhabenjamin.com .
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