Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin is Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022), and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024).

Ruha is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award and the 2024 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship.

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