“Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination”
A Talk by Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin
You are invited to a collaborative all-affinity group and Princeton Club of Washington reception featuring Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin.
About the event
7:00 p.m. - Presentation and Q&A
Ruha Benjamin is Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022), and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024). Ruha earned a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College, MA and PhD in Sociology from UC
Berkeley, and postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics and Harvard’s Science, Technology & Society Program. She is also the recipient fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, and President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more info, visit ruhabenjamin.com.
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