Ruha Benjamin

Education & Tech Equity Advocate; Awardwinning Author; Princeton Professor
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Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022), the 2023 winner of the Stowe Prize, among many other publications. In 2024, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship.

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. She recently released her fourth book, Imagination: A Manifesto. At the center of all Dr. Benjamin’s work is the invitation to “imagine and craft the worlds we cannot live without, just as we dismantle the ones we cannot live within.”

Ruha earned her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College, MA and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics and Harvard’s Science, Technology & Society Program. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.

Her work is published in numerous journals, including Science, Technology, and Human Values; Policy & Society; Ethnicity & Health; and the Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science and reported on in national and international news outlets, including NBC News, Fast Company, WIRED, Slate Magazine, CBC, CNET, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Nature.

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Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want

Utopia, Dystopia, Or... Ustopia? Reckoning With The Future Of Technology & Society

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools For The New Jim Code

Beyond Buzzwords: Innovation, Inequality, And Imagination In The 21st Century

Racial Literacy For The 21st Century

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY8RkET3KC0
Ruha Benjamin Discusses ‘Race After Technology’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6jXdl5HUg
Ruha Benjamin On AI And The Freedom Struggle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUmmgJZDBfQ
Ruha Benjamin | USC Rossier School Of Education Master's Commencement Speaker 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO3nY_u6hos
Is Technology Our Savior — or Our Slayer? | Ruha Benjamin | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRCfuKEGdo
RIP… D.E.I. With Ruha Benjamin | What Now? With Trevor Noah Podcast

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