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Social aspects
African Americans
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration
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Embryonic stem cells
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Ruha Benjamin
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Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. The primary focus of her work is the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly the intersection of race, justice, and technology. Benjamin is the author of numerous publications, including the books ''People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier'' (2013), ''Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code'' (2019), and ''Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want'' (2022).
Benjamin is also a prominent public intellectual, having spoken to audiences across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, delivering presentations to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, a 2021 AAAS keynote, 2020 ICLR keynote and the 8th Annual Patrusky Lecture.
Benjamin's work has been featured in popular outlets that include ''Essence Magazine'', ''LA Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''The Root'', ''Motherboard'', ''The Guardian'', ''Vox'', ''Teen Vogue'', ''National Geographic'', ''STAT'', CNN, ''New Statesman'', ''Slate'', ''Jezebel'', ''Boston Review'', and ''The Huffington Post''.