Press Kit
PODCAST Interviews
2022
Metaphysical Milkshake, “Ruha Benjamin: How Do You Build A Movement?” October 2022, link.
2021
Crooked: “Polling, the People, and the Pandemic with Chris Jackson”, March 2021, link.
2020
Factually! with Adam Conover, “Technology & Race w/ Ruha Benjamin,” Sept 2020, link.
The Edge: A Skillsoft Podcast, “Understanding Bias in Technology & Data,” Sept 2020, link.
Cite Black Women, “Race, Technology, and Abolition w/ Ruha Benjamin," Sept 2020, link.
Haymarket, “Policing without the Police w/ Dorothy Roberts & Ruha Benjamin,” July 2020, link.
WYNC, “Defunding the Police Could Lead to More Surveillance,” June 2020, link.
CNET, “Why Tech Made Racial Injustice Worse,” June 2020, link.
City Arts & Lectures w/ Meredith Whittaker, “Ethics & Race in Tech,” June 2020, link.
The Radical AI Podcast, “Love, Challenge, and Hope w/ Ruha Benjamin,” May 2020, link.
Visions of Education, “Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code,” April 2020, link.
#CauseAScene, “The Strategic Disruption of the Status Quo w/ Ruha Benjamin,” Jan 2020, link.
2019
The ReWork Podcast, “Breaking the Black Box”, Nov 2019, link.
Triangulation, “Race after Technology w/ Ruha Benjamin”, Oct 2019, link.
The Received Wisdom, “Technology, Optimism, and Race with Ruha Benjamin”, Oct 2019, link.
CBC Radio, “How Algorithms Create a Digital Underclass”, Sept 2019, link.
Free Minds Free People podcast, “From the Underbelly w/ Dr. Ruha Benjamin”, July 2019, link.
Northwestern Digital Learning Podcast, June 2019, link.
2017-18
VIDEOS
PRESS
2023
Pop Matters, “What lurks in AI’s Shadow: Separating Fact from Fiction” March 14, 2023
2022
WIRED, “‘Magic Avatar’ App Lensa Generated Nudes From My Childhood Photos” December 7, 2022
Yes! Magazine, “Social Change, at the Cellular Level” December 6, 2022
Texas Public Radio, “Could systemic racism be dismantled by implementing small changes?” December 5, 2022
TIME, “To Dismantle the Prison System, We Need Viral Justice” October 18, 2022
Ms. Magazine, “October 2022 Reads for the Rest of Us” October 3, 2022
WIRED, “A Better Birth Is Possible” September 22, 2022
The Seattle Medium, “Black College Students Are Leading The Movement To Eliminate Bias In Tech” August 19, 2022
Inside Higher Ed, “5 Essential Ways Of Knowing” August 10, 2022
Folha De S.Paulo, “Technological Innovation Is Not Synonymous With Social Progress, Says Sociologist Ruha Benjamin”, July 12, 2022
Los Angeles Review of Books "Janelle Monáe Offers Stories of Hope for Our Dystopian Times" July 9, 2022
Los Angeles Review of Books "Orientalism in Our Code: “The Matrix Resurrections,” Hollywood, and Anti-Asian Violence" June 8, 2022
Boston Review, “The Racial Capitalism of Care”, May 5, 2022
The Medium, “Technological Injustice”, February 28, 2022
2021
KISS 95.1 FM: The Francene Marie Show, “Jim Code”, July 26, 2021
Forbes, “Colin Kaepernick’s Children’s Picture Book to be Published in April by Scholastic”, July 15, 2021
Margaret Casey Foundation, “2020 Freedom Scholars”, July 12, 2021
Slate, “Silicon Valley Pretends that Algorithmic Bias is Accidental. It’s Not.” July 7, 2021
Anthropology Magazine: Sapiens, “What's Behind Match Day's Algorithm?”, March 16, 2021
EdSurge, “Let's Teach Computer Science Majors to be Good Citizens. The Whole World Depends on it.”, March 15, 2021
Venture Beat, “'Your Computer Is On Fire' Draws on Tech History to Critique AI and the Cloud”, March 11, 2021
Venture Beat, “Building AI for the Global South”, March 7, 2021
The Markup, “Major Universities are Using Race as a 'High-impact Predictor' of Student Success”, March 2, 2021
The Globe and Mail, “How Can We Keep Algorithmic Racism out of Canadian Health Care's AI Toolkit?”, Feb 5, 2021
Teen Vogue, “Artificial Intelligence in Policing is the Focus of Encode Justice”, Feb 4, 2021
2020
Scientific American, “Take Racism Out of Medical Algorithms”, Dec 1, 2020
Venture Beat, “Trump Faces Executive Order Lawsuit as Critical Race Theory Fuels AI Research”, Oct 29, 2020
Medium: Abolition for the People and LEVEL publications, “The Shiny High-tech Wolf in Sheep's Clothing”, Oct 22, 2020
Hyperallergic, “How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the 'New Jim Code'”, Oct 8 2020
Tenneseean, “COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed How We Define the Digital Divide”, Oct 1, 2020
NBC News, “While Facebook Works to Create an Oversight Board, Industry Experts Formed Their Own”, Sept 25, 2020
The Conversation, “Race-based COVID-19 Data May Be Used to Discriminate Against Racialized Communities”, Sept 14, 2020
NBC News, “Racist Police Practices Like Mug Shots Normalize the Criminalization of Black Americans”, Aug 6, 2020
Boston Review, “How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias”, Aug 5, 2020
Wall Street Journal, “Henrietta Lacks and her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback”, Aug 1, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine, “Stolen Breaths”, July 16, 2020
Nature, “Don't Ask if Artificial Intelligence is Good or Fair, Ask How it Shifts Power”, July 7, 2020
The Atlantic, “Defund Facial Recognition”, July 5, 2020
WNYC Radio, “Defunding the Police Could Lead to More Surveillance”, June 19, 2020
Science Friday, “Seeking Algorithmic Justice in Policing AI”, June 19, 2020
The Nation, “The Ghost in the Machine”, Review of ‘Race After Technology’ by Stephen Kearse, June 15, 2020
2019
Essence Magazine, “These Black Women are Fighting for Justice in a World of Biased Algorithms”, Nov 12, 2019.
Chicago Tribute, “Racial bias in health care software aids whites over blacks”, Oct 26, 2019.
The Guardian, “Healthcare algorithm used across America has dramatic racial biases”, Oct 25, 2019.
Bloomberg, “Get the Racism Out of Health Care Algorithms”, Oct 25, 2019.
Motherboard, “‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm…”, Oct 25, 2019.
Nature, “Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms”, Oct 24, 2019.
LA Times, “How computer algorithms help spread racial bias in U.S. healthcare…”, Oct 24, 2019.
The Root, “Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black Ones”, Oct 24, 2019
WaPo, “Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients”, Oct 24, 2019.
Function w/ Anil Dash, “American as Apple Pie: How Racism Gets Baked into Technology”, Oct 24, 2019.
TechCrunch, “People Fix Things. Tech Doesn’t Fix Things”, Oct 21, 2019.
Mashable, “10 books about tech for every kind of person in your life”, Oct 21, 2019.
MIT Technology Review, “Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game”, Oct 17, 2019.
Triangulation, “Interview: Race after Technology”, Oct 17, 2019.
Vox, “I sold my face to Google for $5”: Why Google’s attempt to make facial recognition…failed”, Oct 17, 2019.
New Statesman, “The New Jim Code” – Ruha Benjamin on racial discrimination by algorithm”, Sept 26, 2019.
NPR Science Friday, “Why AI is a Growing Part of the Criminal Justice System…”, Sept 13, 2019.
CBC Radio, “How Algorithms Create a Digital Underclass”, Sept 4, 2019.
YES! Magazine, “White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence”, Aug 28, 2019.
FAIR, “Black Communities Are Already Living in a Tech Dystopia”, Aug 15, 2019.
CounterSpin, “Ruha Benjamin on Race After Technology”, Aug 9, 2019.
KBOO Radio, “Interview: Race After Technology”, July 15, 2019.
The Guardian, “We Definitely Can’t Wait for Silicon Valley to Become More Diverse”, June 29, 2019.
CTV Your Morning, “How Certain Technology is Not Treating Everyone Equally”, June 13, 2019.
Jezebel, “Rethinking Surrogacy”, June 2, 2019.
Computer Weekly, “Interview: Ruha Benjamin, author, Race After Technology”, May 17, 2019.
Slate, “Tech Critics Create a Powerful Response to IBM Oscars Ad”, March 1, 2019.
2015-18
MIT News, “Calculating the Cost of Tech-Fueled Discrimination”, December 13, 2017.
Chronicle of Higher Ed, “Discriminatory Design in Education and Educational Technology”, Sept 21, 2016.
OpenDemocracy, “In the fight for our genes, could we lose what makes us human?”, Aug 17, 2016.
EdTech Magazine, “ISTE 2016: Technology Alone Cannot Create Social Equality”, June 28, 2016.
EdScoop, “Education equity advocate Ruha Benjamin urges teachers to embrace hacking mindset”, June 28, 2016.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “A Crispr Future”, Dec 15, 2015.
Nature, “Global Summit Reveals Divergent Views on Human Gene Editing”, Dec 8, 2015.
National Geographic, “Five Reasons Gene Editing is Both Terrific and Terrifying”, Dec 3, 2015.
STAT, “Global Summit Opens Door to Controversial Gene-editing of Human Embryos”, Dec 3, 2015.
Philadelphia Weekly, “Black sci-fi creators assemble at Princeton…”, Sept 23, 2015.
The Guardian, “Innovation and Equity in an Age of Gene Editing”, May 19, 2015.
News at Princeton, “Discriminatory Design in Medical, Scientific Research”, March 9, 2015.
TEDx Baltimore Talk, “From Park Bench to Lab Bench: Whose future are we designing”, Jan 30, 2015.
2012-14
CNN, quoted in “The Power of Prejudice– and why you should speak up”, Feb 6, 2014.
Center for Genetics and Society, “Talking Biopolitics”, webinar, June 26, 2013.
Huffington Post, “Playing the Game or Hacking the System?”, June 5, 2013
Huffington Post, “Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?”, April 17, 2013
KPFA Sunday Show interview, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier”, April 7, 2013
San Francisco Chronicle editorial, “Should researchers pay for women’s eggs?”, April 4, 2013.
Huffington Post, “Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions”, March 25, 2013
CNN, quoted in “Parallels to Country’s Racist Past Haunt Age of Obama”, Nov 1, 2012
CNN Health, quoted in “The Power of Perceptions: Imagining the reality you want”, April 14, 2012