The 2021 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture
Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, which examines the relationship between machine bias and systemic racism, analyzing specific cases of "discriminatory design" and offering tools for a socially-conscious approach to tech development.
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