Dialogue with the Dean: Ruha Benjamin
Dialogue with Ruha Benjamin
Thursday, February 18
6:30-8 p.m (CT) on Zoom
School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson initiated Dialogue with the Dean, a series of conversations with emerging and established communicators who are advancing the futures of their fields, challenging paradigms, and promoting social justice.
Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code and editor of Captivating Technology. She has studied the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine for over fifteen years and speaks widely on issues of innovation, equity, health, and justice in the U.S. and globally. Benjamin is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2017 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton as well as the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2020 Nonfiction Prize for Race After Technology.