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Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society with Ruha Benjamin

Moderated by Renée Cummings, Data Activist in Residence at the School of Data Science of the University of Virginia, Dr. Benjamin will be presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code” to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. This event is virtual, register here.