Wednesday, February 23, 2022
5:30 PM
Professor of African American studies and founding director of Princeton University’s Ida B.Wells JUST Data Lab, Ruha Benjamin, will speak at the 38th annual UCSC Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation, which will take place on Wednesday, February 23, at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public; those who wish to attend the convocation may register in advance.
Ruha Benjamin is professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab and author of two books, People’s Science and Race After Technology, and editor of Captivating Technology. Benjamin is currently working on a fourth book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want and writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.
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