I am a transdisciplinary scholar, writer and educator, currently Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, and author of four books, Imagination: A Manifesto (2024), Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of Captivating Technology (2019).
I write, teach, and speak widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.
RESEARCH
Foreword to “Resisting Borders & Technologies of Violence” (2024) edited by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi + Coline Schupfer.
“Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice” (2022), coauthored with Greta Byrum (paper).
Afterword to “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom” by Nettrice Gaskins.
“Parable of the Black Designer” (2022) in The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection (foreword).
“The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”, (2021) Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons. (chapter)