Ruha Benjamin

Associate Professor Ph: 609.258.4270 Princeton University Fax: 609.258.5095 African American Studies [email protected] Stanhope Hall 003 www.ruhabenjamin.com Princeton, NJ 08544

POSITIONS

Princeton University, Department of African American Studies.

Associate Professor. Sept 2017 – present.

Assistant Professor. Aug 2014 – Aug 2017.

Executive Committee: Program in Global Health & Health Policy; Center for Digital Humanities

Princeton Faculty Affiliations: Program in History of Science; Center for Health & Wellbeing; Center for Information Technology & Policy; Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies; Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics: Values, Technologies and Institutions.

Other Institutional Affiliations: NYU Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies (Advisory Board)

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Member. School of Social Science. Sept 2016 – July 2017.

Boston University, Boston, MA. Assistant Professor. Sociology and African American Studies. July 2010 – June 2014. Faculty Affiliate: History & Philosophy of Science; African Studies; American Studies.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Visiting Faculty Fellow. Program on Science, Technology, & Society. Sept ‘12 – May ‘13.

University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Postdoctoral Fellow. Center for Society and Genetics. Sept 2008 – Sept 2010.

EDUCATION PhD University of California, Berkeley, CA. Sociology, 2008.

MA University of California, Berkeley, CA. Sociology, 2004.

BA Spelman College, Atlanta, GA. Sociology & Anthropology, summa cum laude, 2001.

1 PUBLICATIONS

Books 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Select Coverage: Bloomberg, CBC Radio, Chicago Tribute, Colorlines, Computer Weekly, CTV Morning, CounterSpin, CSPAN-2, EdSurge, Essence, Fast Company, Jacobin, Los Angeles Times, MIT Technology Review, Motherboard, Nature, NPR Science Friday, The Guardian, The Root, New Statesman, Slate, VOX, Washington Post, Vrij Magazine, YES! Magazine, Zora Medium.

2019, ed. Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2013. People’s Science: Bodies & Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. Stanford University Press.

Select Reviews: American Journal of Sociology; British Journal for the History of Science; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; New Genetics and Society; Humanity and Society; Contemporary Sociology.

Refereed Articles 2018. Prophets and Profits of Racial Science. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies Vol. 5, Issue 1: 41-53.

2017. Cultura Obscura: Race, Power, and ‘Culture Talk’ in the Health Sciences. American Journal of Law and Medicine, Invited special issue, edited by Bridges, Keel, and Obasogie, Vol. 43, Issue 2-3: 225-238.

2016. Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination. Engaging Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 2: 145-156.

2016. Informed Refusal: Toward a Justice-based Bioethics. Science, Technology, and Human Values, Vol. 4, Issue 6: 967-990.

2016. Racial Fictions, Biological Facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through Speculative Methods. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Vol. 2, Issue 2: 1-28.

2015. The Emperor’s New Genes: Science, Public Policy, and the Allure of Objectivity. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 661: 130-142.

2014. Race for Cures: Rethinking the Racial Logics of ‘Trust’ in Biomedicine. Sociology Compass, Vol. 8, Issue 6: 755-769.

2011. Organized Ambivalence: When Stem Cell Research & Sickle Cell Disease Converge. Ethnicity & Health, Vol. 16, Issue 4-5: 447-463.

2009. A Lab of Their Own: Genomic Sovereignty as Postcolonial Science Policy. Policy & Society, Vol. 28, Issue 4: 341-355.

Book Chapters 2020. Automating Racial Alibis: Rethinking Race, Technology, and the Law, with Cierra Robson. In The Oxford Handbook on Race and Law in the United States, edited by Bridges, Carbado, Houh, in-press.

2 2018. Black Afterlives Matter: Cultivating Kinfulness as Reproductive Justice. In Making Kin Not Population, edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Prickly Paradigm Press. (Republished in Boston Review)

2017. What do we owe each other? Moral Debts and Racial Distrust in Experimental Stem Cell Science, with with Leslie Hinkson. Ch 6 in Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine, Ehlers and Hinkson, eds. University of Minnesota Press.

2015. Racial Destiny or Dexterity? The Global Circulation of Genomics as an Empowerment Idiom, Ch10 in Reimagining Biomedicalization, Pharmaceuticals, and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements. Susan E. Bell and Anne Figert, eds. Routledge.

2012. Organized Ambivalence: When Stem Cell Research & Sickle Cell Disease Converge, in Genetics & Global Public Health: Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia, Simon Dyson & Karl Atkin, eds. Routledge.

Essays and Reviews 2019. Assessing Risk, Automating Inequality. Science Vol. 366, Issue 6464, pp. 421-422.

2019. Forum on Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations, with Adele Clarke, Ruha Benjamin, Kim TallBear, Michelle Murphy, Donna Haraway, Yu-ling Huang, Chia-ling Wu. Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, Issue 1: 159-172.

2017. Ethical principles for the use of human cellular biotechnologies, with Paul Root Wolpe, Karen S. Rommelfanger & Drafting and Reviewing Delegates of the BEINGS Working Groups. Nature Biotechnology 35: 1050-1058.

2016. Innovating Inequity: If Race is a Technology, Postracialism is the Genius Bar. Review of Are We All Postracial Yet? by David T. Goldberg, Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 39, Issue 13: 1-8.

2016. Designer and Discarded Genomes: An Experiment with Speculative Methods Over Time. e-flux, invited special issue, edited by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley, online: http://www.e- flux.com/architecture/superhumanity/66875

2016. Molecularization of Identity: Science and Subjectivity in the 21st Century, with Ian McGonigle. Genetics Research, Vol. 98, Issue 12: 1-5.

2016. Review of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson. Humanity & Society Vol. 40, Issue 2: 204-206.

2016. Interrogating Equity: A Disability Justice Approach to Human Gene Editing. National Academies of Science, Issues in Science and Technology Vol. 32, Issue 3: 51-54.

2014. Conjuring Differences, Concealing Inequality. Review of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields. Theory & Society Vol. 43, Issue 6: 683-688.

In-progress

The Emperor’s New Genes: On Borders, Belonging, and Biopolitics. Book manuscript.

3 FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS Princeton University Arthur Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship, 2017-20. Princeton Center for Digital Humanities Inaugural Faculty Fellowship, 2018-19. Princeton University President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2017. Institute for Advanced Study Sabbatical Fellowship, 2016-17. Center for Health and Wellbeing Summer Mini-Research Grant ($6,373), 2016. Princeton Council on Science and Technology Documentary Film Mini-Grant ($3,000), 2016. Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts Symposium Grant ($45,000) 2015-16. Princeton University David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Grant ($35,500) 2015-16. American Council for Learned Societies Sabbatical Fellowship, 2012-13. National Science Foundation, Graduate Student Fellowship, 2004-07. California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2006-07. Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Diversity Graduate Fellowship, 2002-05.

TEACHING Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2014 - Political Bodies: The Social Anatomy of Power and Difference, ongoing. Black to the Future: Science, Fiction, and Society, ongoing. Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice, ongoing. Race is Socially Constructed: Now What?, ongoing.

Boston University, Boston, MA, 2010-2014. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Science, Race, and Society Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations Technology, Policy, and Society (cotaught w/ Prof. Charles DeLisi, Biomedical Engineering)

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2008-2010. Race, Science, and Citizenship. Sociology and Society & Genetics Political Sociology of Science. Public Policy and Society & Genetics (co-instructor) Center for Society & Genetics Undergrad Research Opportunity (advisor)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited talks 2020—

Law & Digital Society: Reimagining the Future Keynote | Lund, Sweden 8/24.

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Presidential Speaker | Amsterdam 7/20.

University of Cambridge Seminar Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power | Cambridge, UK 7/13. Dartmouth University Race after Technology | Hanover, NH 6/29. AcademyHealth Race, Research, and the Power and Peril of Big Data Keynote | Boston, MA 6/14. City Arts & Lectures Live Ethics & Race in Tech Talk | San Francisco, 6/1. Princeton University Public Lecture Talk w/ Kate Crawford | Princeton, NJ 5/6. 4 University of Chicago Conference on Eugenics Talk | Chicago, IL 5/1. International Conference on Learning Representations Keynote | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 4/28. Cornell University The New Jim Code Book Talk | Ithaca, NY 4/21. Columbia University School of Public Health Assessing Risk, Automating Racism Talk | NYC 4/20. Simmons Leadership Conference Keynote | Boston, MA 4/16. The New School Toward a Sociology of the Future Keynote | New York, NY 4/4. San Francisco Public Library Book Talk | SF, CA 4/1. Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting Keynote | SF, CA 4/2. Coastal Carolina University Book Talk | Conway, SC 3/27. University of South Carolina Mary Baskin Waters Lecture | Columbia, SC 3/26. UNC Charlotte School of Data Science 2020 Analytics Frontier Conference Keynote | Charlotte, NC 3/25. University of Edinburgh Race after Technology | Edinburgh, UK 3/12. University of Oxford Race after Technology | Oxford, UK 3/11. University College London Race after Technology | London, UK 3/10. Spelman College Planet Deep South Conference Lecture | Atlanta, GA 2/20. Rutgers University 40th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture | Newark, NJ 2/15. University of California, Irvine Dept of Informatics and School of Law Lecture | Irvine, CA 2/7. University of Oregon Cressman Lecture in the Humanities | Portland, OR 2/4. 2019—

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Black in AI Keynote | Vancouver 12/13.

University of Pennsylvania Race after Technology Talk | Philadelphia, PA 12/9.

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Brennan Center for Justice Symposium Keynote | NYC 12/3.

Media Democracy Fund Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Talk | Baltimore, MD 12/3.

University of Toronto Ethics and Governance in AI for Healthcare Lecture | Toronto 11/27.

McGill University Race after Technology Talk | Montreal 11/26.

Concordia University Race after Technology Talk | Montreal 11/25.

Yale University Center for Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration Talk | New Haven, CT 11/14.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize Talk | Princeton, NJ 11/12.

Association of California School Administrators Annual Meeting Keynote | San Francisco, CA 11/8.

Association of Independent Schools New England Governance Conference Keynote | Boston, MA 11/7.

Surdna Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Panelist | NYC 11/4.

Data & Society Research Institute Databite Talk | NYC 10/30.

5 Sudan Machine Learning Indaba Keynote (via Zoom) | Khartoum, Sudan 10/26.

University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication Lecture | Los Angeles, CA 10/22.

UCLA Department of African American Studies Lecture | Los Angeles, CA 10/21.

Emerson College Teach-in on Race Keynote | Boston, MA 10/18.

UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society Talk | Berkeley, CA 10/17.

UC Santa Cruz Science and Justice Center Talk | Santa Cruz, CA 10/16.

NYU AI Now Symposium Panelist | NYC 10/2.

NYU Institute of Public Knowledge Book Panel | NYC 9/30.

Amsterdam Civic AI Lab Discriminatory Algorithm Forum Panelist (via Skype) | Amsterdam, Netherlands 9/30.

Cambridge Public Library Race after Technology Talk | Cambridge, MA 9/26.

Harvard Kennedy School Forum Invited Panelist, recorded for CSPAN-2 | Cambridge, MA 9/25.

Tufts University Race after Technology Talk | Somerville 9/24.

Harvard Berkman Klein Race after Technology Talk | Cambridge 9/24.

Women in Cable Telecommunications Leadership Conference Beyond Buzzwords Talk | NYC, 9/15.

Goldsmith’s College Resistance is Fertile Black Afterlives Matter Keynote | London, UK 9/14.

UK Medical Sociology Annual Meeting Black Afterlives Matter Keynote | York, UK 9/12.

Society for the Social Studies of Science Plenary Panel on Regeneration | New Orleans, LA 9/7.

Tulane University Race after Technology Talk | New Orleans, LA 9/6.

Deep Learning Indaba Beyond Buzzwords Keynote | Nairobi, Kenya 8/26.

United Nations Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Panelist (Virtual)| Geneva 8/22.

Google Beyond Buzzwords Keynote | San Francisco, CA 8/20.

American Sociological Association Social Theory & Social Progress panel | NYC 8/12.

American Sociological Association Race & Racism After Technology panel | NYC 8/11.

Association of Black Sociologists Sankofa Science Panel | NYC 8/9.

Digital Pedagogy Lab International Conference Keynote | Fredericksburg, VA 8/5.

Vermont Principals Association Annual Meeting Keynote | Stowe, VT 7/30.

Free Minds, Free People Invited Plenary Speaker | Minneapolis, MN 7/13.

University of Toronto Inaugural Schwartz Reisman Inst for Technology & Society Lecture | Toronto 7/11.

NYU Race, Technology, and the Future, Setting the Agenda Speaker | Washington DC 5/28.

Northwestern University TEACHx Keynote | Chicago, IL 5/23.

University of Michigan Bishop Lecturer in Bioethics | Ann Arbor, MI 5/22. 6

Virginia Tech Technologics: Power and Resistance Keynote | Blacksburg, VA 4/26.

Princeton University Black Imaginary Morphing Invited Keynote | Princeton, NJ 4/11.

NYU Dept of Media, Culture, and Communication Symposium, Invited Speaker | NYC 3/28.

NYU Digitizing Race: Making Latinxs in the 21st Century Invited Keynote | NYC 3/8.

Hunter College Refiguring the Future Invited panelist | NYC 2/9.

Florida International University New Jim Code Lecture | Miami, FL 1/25.

Invited Talks 2018—

California School Boards Association Invited keynote | San Francisco, CA 11/30.

UC Davis Bioethics Symposium, Invited speaker | Davis, CA 11/1.

UC Davis Distinguished Bioethics Public Lecture, Invited keynote | Davis, CA 10/31.

UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Invited speaker | Berkeley, CA 10/29.

Harvey Mudd College Dr. Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Lecture, Invited speaker | Pamona, CA 10/24.

Rowland Foundation Annual Conference, Invited keynote | Burlington, VT 10/23.

Toigo Foundation Groundbreakers event, Invited speaker | New York, NY 10/19.

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Creative Empowerment Series, Invited speaker | Jackson, MS 10/4.

AI4All Summer Academy Invited Keynote | Princeton, NJ 8/10.

UC San Diego Science Studies Program Graduate Student Choice Speaker | San Diego, CA 5/30.

UC San Diego Ethnic Studies and Sociology, Invited speaker | San Diego, CA 5/31.

Cooperative Association for Special Education Invited keynote | DuPage, IL 3/2.

Association for Independent Schools of New England Invited keynote | Beverly, MA 1/24.

Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conf on Math Ed & Social Justice Keynote | San Francisco, CA 1/13.

Invited Talks 2017—

New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education Keynote | Albany, NY 12/1.

Rowland Foundation Annual Conference Keynote | Burlington, VT 10/26.

Massachusetts Computer Using Educators Annual Meeting Keynote | Foxboro, MA 10/25.

Northwest Association for Independent Schools Annual Conference Keynote | Tacoma, WA 10/13.

53rd Nobel Conference Reproductive Technologies: How Far Can We Go? Lecture | Saint Peter, MN, 10/3.

University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication Speaker | Philadelphia, PA 9/8.

Society for the Social Studies of Science “Engaged STS” Plenary Session Panelist | Boston, MA 9/1.

American Sociological Association Invited panel, “Designer and Discarded Genomes: Experimenting with Speculative Methods and Imaginative Sociology” | Montreal 8/12. 7

Rosemont College Ethics and Emerging Medical Technologies Symposium, Invited speaker, “Informed Refusal: Towards a Justice-based Bioethics.” | Rosemont, PA 4/21.

American University of Cairo “Beyond Buzzwords: Innovation, Inequality, and Imagination in the 21st Century.” Research Week Keynote Speaker | Cairo, Egypt 4/6.

Georgia Institute of Technology “Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome” Symposium with Alondra Nelson, Invited speaker | Atlanta, GA 4/4.

Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics, Invited lecture. “Informed Refusal: Towards a Justice- based Bioethics.” | Baltimore, MD 3/27.

American Society of Association Executives Speaker | Orlando, FL 3/6.

MobilizeGreen Annual Conference Invited keynote, “Beyond Buzzwords: Innovation, Inequality, and Imagination in the 21st Century.” | Oakland, CA 3/2.

New York University National Student Affairs Keynote, “Getting to the Heart of Higher Education” | NYC 2/17.

US Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service Invited speaker, “Rethinking Racism: Apples, Orchards, and Planting Seeds of Change.” | Robbinsville, NJ 2/15.

Boston University School of Law “Critical Race Theory and the Health Sciences”, Invited panelist, “Cultura Obscure: Race, Power and ‘Culture Talk’ in the Health Sciences” | Boston, MA 1/20.

Invited Talks 2016—

Yale University Department of Sociology Colloquium Lecture, “Race for Cures: Rethinking the Racial Logics of ‘Difference’ in the Life Sciences” | New Haven, CT 12/7.

Columbia University Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, & Culture Seminar Lecture. “Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Innovation & Equity in the Era of Precision Medicine” | NYC 11/12.

UCLA In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice Colloquium, Invited lecture, “The Emperor’s New Genes: Race, Science, Justice, and the Allure of Objectivity” | LA, CA 10/27.

University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study Keynote, “Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Envisioning Innovation & Equity in an Era of Personalized Medicine” | Minneapolis, MN 9/29.

University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Lecture, “Informed Refusal: Towards a Justice-based Bioethics.” | Philadelphia, PA 9/20.

Brandeis University Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program and African and Afro-American Studies Colloquium Lecture, “The Emperor’s New Genes...” | Waltham, MA 9/13.

American Sociological Association Thematic Session, “Science, Movements, and Social Inequality” Panelist | Seattle, WA 8/22.

International Society for Technology and Education Keynote, “Playing the Game or Hacking the System?” | Denver, CO 6/28.

University of Toronto Wilson Centre Brian D. Hodges Symposium Keynote, “Envisioning Innovation & Equity in an Era of Personalized Medicine” | Toronto, 5/26.

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Mid-Atlantic Regional Keynote, “The Emperor’s New Genes: Race, Science, Justice, and the Allure of Objectivity” | Princeton, NJ 4/15.

8 Yale University Science, Race, & Social Justice Distinguished Lecture, “The Emperor’s New Genes: Race, Science, Justice, & the Allure of Objectivity” | New Haven, CT 4/5.

National Patient-Centered Clinical Trial Research Network Building Public Trustworthiness Meeting Keynote, “Culturing Trustworthiness” | Washington DC, 3/28.

University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Lecture, “Black Extinction…and Regeneration: An ethnography of the future” | Philadelphia, PA 3/14.

Rutgers University Mark Conference Lecture, “Playing the Game or Hacking the System? Empowering Students as Agents of Change” | New Brunswick, NJ 3/5.

National Association of Independent Schools Keynote. “Women in Technology: Playing the Game or Hacking the System?” | San Francisco, CA 2/26.

Invited Talks 2015—

National Academies of Science International Summit on Human Gene Editing Panelist, “Interrogating Equity in Human Genetic Engineering” | Washington DC, 12/3.

American Anthropological Association Executive Session Panelist, “Informed Refusal: Salvaging the Capacity to Talk Back” | Denver, CO 11/21.

Columbia University Alternative Ethnographies Seminar Lecture, “Writing the Future: Reimagining Race, Science, and Subjectivity in 2064” | NYC 11/6.

Association for Independent Schools in New England Keynote, “Race Unplugged: Moving Beyond Media Sound Bites” | Chelmsford, MA11/2.

Drexel University Center for Science, Tech & Society Lecture, “Star Trek Meets the Black Panthers: Experimenting with STS In & Outside the Academy” | Philadelphia, PA 10/29.

Rutgers University Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research Colloquium Lecture. “Innovation, Health Equity, and the Sociological Imagination” | New Brunswick, NJ 10/15.

Johns Hopkins University Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture | Baltimore, MD, 10/10.

European Students’ Conference on Science or Fiction? Imagine the Future of Medicine Keynote, “Back to the Future: What are we forgetting as medicine moves forward?” | Berlin, Germany 9/24.

Pan European Healthcare Summit Keynote, “Envisioning Equity & Innovation in an Era of Personalized Medicine” | Dublin, Ireland 9/22.

25th Anniversary of Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section Conference Plenary Lecture, “Catching Our Breath: SKAT and the Carceral Imagination” | Chicago, IL 8/21.

Emory University Biotech and the Ethical Imagination: A Global Summit Distinguished Faculty Speaker, “Alienating Ethics” | Atlanta, GA 5/18.

National Endowment for the Humanities Justice, Ethics, and Public Life Series Speaker, “Justice, Ethics, and Public Life” | Princeton, NJ 5/12.

University of California Santa Cruz Science and Justice Center Speaker, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier” | Santa Cruz, CA 5/6.

College of New Jersey African American Studies Lecture, “Discriminatory Design: Whose Future Are We Designing?” | Ewing, NJ 4/9.

9 Eastern Sociological Association Presidential Panel Speaker, “Current Debates Over Race, DNA & Genetics” | New York, NY 2/28.

Eastern Sociological Association Author Meets Critics Panelist, “Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling” by L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy | NYC, 2/27.

Princeton Program on History of Science Histories of the Future Workshop Panelist, “Black to the Future: Rethinking Race, Science, and Subjectivity” | Princeton, NJ 2/6 - 2/7.

TEDx Speaker, “From Park Bench to Lab Bench: Whose Future Are We Designing?” | Baltimore, MD 1/29.

Emory University Center for Ethics Lecture, “Race for Cures: On the Racial Politics of ‘Difference’ in the Life Sciences” | Atlanta, GA 1/27.

Invited Talks 2014—

MIT Science, Technology, and Society Colloquium Speaker, “Racial Destiny or Dexterity? The Global Circulation of Genomics as an Empowerment Idiom” | Cambridge, MA 12/8.

University of Pennsylvania Program on Race, Science, and Society Lecture, “The Emperor’s New Genes: Mapping and Marketing Populations in a Global Context” | Philadelphia, PA 10/29.

American Sociological Association Critical Sociology Mini-Conference Session on Racism & Capitalism Panelist, “The Post-Postracial Ethic & the Spirit of Biocapitalism” | San Francisco, CA 8/18.

University of California Berkeley School of Law Celebration of Troy Duster Panelist, “Front Door to Social Change” | Berkeley, CA 8/15.

UC Humanities Research Institute & Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research Archives of the Non- Racial Lecture, “Can the Subaltern Genome Code?” | Johannesburg, South Africa 6/30.

PBS and NOVA Education Science Café Speaker, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier” | Cambridge, MA 5/20.

National Human Genome Research Institute and Brooklyn Public Library Panelist, “Sankofa Science: On the Legacy of Ms. Henrietta Lacks” | Brooklyn, NY 5/17.

15th Annual Conference for Undergrad Research & Creative Expression Keynote, “Forgetting to Remember: When Too Much Data & Too Little Reflection Mix?” | Reading, PA 4/26.

Harvard University Science, Identity & Ethnicity: States and Citizens in Global Knowledge Regimes Panelist. “Can the Subaltern Genome Code?” | Cambridge, MA 4/25.

Tufts University Barack Obama and Democracy Annual Conference Keynote, “I Have a Nightmare: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Punishment” | Medford, MA 4/18.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Women Annual Conference Keynote, “Playing the Game or Hacking the System?” | Cambridge, MA 4/17.

University of Vermont Speaker, “Science as Storytelling: Culturing Race, Power, and Biology in the Petri Dish.” | Burlington, VT 4/2.

Boston University Discoveries Lecture Series Speaker, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier” | Boston, MA 3/25.

University of Wisconsin Whitewater Contemporary Issues Lecture Series Speaker, “Race Unplugged: Beyond Sound Bites of Pundits, Politicians, and Pop Culture” | Whitewater, WI, 3/10. 10

Invited Talks 2013—

UC Irvine Science & Its Publics: Emergent Forms of Public Engagement Panelist, “Civic & Cellular Potentiality: Biological Citizens & Defectors on the Stem Cell Frontier” | Irvine, CA 10/8.

University of Pretoria Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine Speaker, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier” | Pretoria, South Africa 9/13.

UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Commencement Address Speaker, “Biopolitical Citizenship in the 21st Century” | Los Angeles, CA 6/15.

Law and Society Annual Meeting Author Meets Reader Panelist, “Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age” by Jonathan Kahn | Boston, MA 6/1.

Texas A&M University Reconsidering Race: Cross Disciplinary & Interdisciplinary Approaches Panelist “Recasting Race, Provincializing Science” | College Station, TX 5/3.

Spelman College Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony Speaker, “Playing the Game or Hacking the System?” | Atlanta, GA 4/27.

Boston University African Studies Walter Rodney Lecture Series Speaker, “Sankofa Science: social histories, medical futures, & public participation on the stem cell frontier” | Boston, MA 4/22.

University of California San Francisco Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Speaker. “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.” | San Francisco, CA 4/8.

Eastern Sociological Association Author Meets Critics Panelist. “Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination” | Boston, MA 3/23.

San Francisco State University Health Equity Institute Speaker, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier” | San Francisco, CA 3/18.

Georgia Tech School of History, Technology & Society Speaker, “Sankofa Science: social histories, medical futures & public participation on the stem cell frontier.” | Atlanta, GA 2/25.

Witwatersrand University Institute for Social and Economic Research Public Symposium Panelist, “New Directions in Critical Race Theory” | Johannesburg, South Africa 2/8.

Nanyang Technological University Biology, medicine, and race beyond the genome Panelist, “Racial Past as Postgenomics Prelude” | Singapore, 1/17.

Association of American Law Schools The Genes Speak: Reifying Race, Gender & Sex in the New Biopolitics Panelist, “Whose Body? What Rights? struggles on the stem cell frontier” | New Orleans, LA 1/3.

Invited Talks 2012—

American Sociological Association Author Meets Critics Panelist, “Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate” by John H. Evans | Denver, CO August.

WGBH and New Repertory Theatre Spotlight Symposium Series Panelist, “Exploring David Mamet’s Comedy Race” | Watertown, MA 10/21.

UCLA Biohistories: Biological Markers and Human Population in Historical Context Speaker, “Los más europeos: on persistence of whiteness in population genomics?” | LA, CA May.

Harvard University Program on Science, Technology and Society Panelist, “Architectures for Life” Science and Democracy Symposium | Cambridge, MA April. 11

Invited Talks 2011—

University of Amsterdam Conference on Race/Whiteness in Comparative Perspective Panelist, “White Codes: Mapping Biological Race in the Postcolony” | Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dec.

Center for Genetics and Society Tarrytown Meetings Panelist. “Provincializing Science: Genomic Sovereignty & Mapping & Marketing of Ethnoracial Diversity” | Tarrytown, NY July.

Center for Genetics and Society Tarrytown Meetings Panelist. “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Ethnic Niche Markets and Genomic Sovereignty After BiDil.” | Tarrytown, NY July.

University of Warwick Research Symposia on Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms Speaker, “Provincializing Science: Racial Thought and Human Difference” | Coventry, UK May.

Harvard University Program on Science, Technology and Society Speaker, “A Lab of Their Own: Genomic Sovereignty as Postcolonial Science Policy?” | Cambridge, MA April.

Brown University Race and Genomics Lecture Series Speaker, “Race for Cures: Mapping & Marketing Ethnoracial Diversity” | Providence, RI April.

Boston University Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science, Alfred I. Tauber Forum on Race Debate in Public Health Genomics Speaker, “Ethnic Drugs as Public Health?” | Boston, MA Nov 2010.

Scholarly conferences and other presenting roles

2020— Huntington Library “Playbook of the Sower: Octavia E. Butler as a Guide for World-Building,” Workshop Organizer and Presenter | San Marino, CA, 5/27.

2019— University of Delaware “Spatial Intimacies” workshop panelist, May 3. Students for Prison Education and Reform conference panel moderator, April 13. Black Imagination Matters Incubator Keynote, April 12. Data for Black Lives, “What is a Movement Scientist?” panel moderator | Cambridge, MA, Jan 13.

2018— W.E.B. Du Bois Accelerate Learning Academy | Princeton, NJ, Dec 7. Princeton All-Nighter Faculty Guest | Princeton, NJ, Nov 16. Princeton University Press “I Am Not Your Negro” Film Discussant | Princeton, NJ, Nov 15. Old Guard Princeton Invited Speaker | Princeton, NJ, Nov 14. McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning Master Class on Teaching | Princeton, NJ, Feb 14.

2017— Silence Will Not Protect You: Womanism in the Age of Trump, panel moderator | Princeton, NJ, Nov 16. Society for the Social Studies of Science “Captivating Technology” panel organizer | Boston, Aug. Labyrinth Books, Fugitive Science by Britt Rusert, Invited discussant | Princeton, NJ, May 3. Princeton StudioLab Rethinking Mass Incarceration Design Challenge Speaker | Princeton, NJ, April 25. Princeton University African American Studies Graduate Student Conference “The Mourning After: A Dreamer’s Guide to Staying Woke”, Invited keynote | Princeton, NJ, April 19. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting “‘Fixing’ the Future: Race, Technoscience, and the Carceral Imagination,” Panel organizer and presenter | Philadelphia, PA, Feb 25. Modern Language Association “Candid Conversations”, Invited panelist | Philadelphia, PA, Jan 8.

12 2016— Institute for Advanced Study Fellows Talk, “The Emperor’s New Genes: Science, Race, Policy, and the Allure of Objectivity” | Princeton, NJ 10/17. Institute for Advanced Study Conversations, “Are Robots Racist?” | Princeton, NJ 10/13. Princeton University Center for Health and Wellbeing Mini-Conference. “The Emperor’s New Genes: Race, Science, Policy, and the Allure of Objectivity” Participant | Princeton, NJ 10/14. American Sociological Association Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section “Science at the Margins” Session Presider | Seattle, WA 8/21. Harvard University Program on Science, Technology and Society Speaker, “Gene-editing or Shredding? Disability Justice Approach to Imagining and Engineering Humanity” | Cambridge, MA 4/29. Harvard University Program on Science, Technology and Society, Conference co-organizer, discussant. “Molecularization of Identity: Science & Subjectivity in the 21st Cent.” | Cambridge, MA 4/29-30. Princeton University Inequality Science Lecture Series Moderator | Princeton, NJ 4/20. Columbia University Graduate Student Conference Discussant. “Expertise from Margin to Center: Science, Politics, and Democracy” | New York, NY 4/15.

2015— 25th Anniversary of Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section Conference, Session Chairperson, “The Biopolitics of Genetics” | Chicago, IL 8/21. Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop on Capacity Building Participant, “Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison.” | Copenhagen, Denmark, 5/20-22. UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Invited panelist. “Race, Gender, and Navigating the Academy.” | Berkeley, CA, 5/8. Essex County College Speculative Humanities: From Steampunk to Afrofuturism Panelist, “Ferguson is the Future: Putting the Sociological Imagination to Work through Speculative Arts” | Newark, NJ 5/11.

2014— National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, panelist. “Biopolitics versus Bioethics: On the Politics of Refusal.” | San Juan, Puerto Rico, 11/13. University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender workshop, Invited participant. “Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies” | Ann Arbor, MI, 10/2-5. Boston University Congressman Chaka Fattah Visit, Invited speaker, “Rethinking Innovation, Ethics, and Equity.” | Boston, MA, 4/24.

2013— American Studies Association Life and Debt: Race, the American Healthcare System, & Race-Based Medicine, Panelist. “People’s Science and ‘Race for Cures’ on the Stem Cell Frontier” | Washington DC, 11/20. Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Panelist. “Can the Subaltern Genome Code? A Hacker’s Guide to South African Biopolitics.” | San Diego, CA 10/11. Wellcome Trust and University of Pretoria Exploring the concept of genomic sovereignty with the San community of southern Africa, Invited Speaker. | Kimberley, South Africa 9/8-10. American Sociology Association Sociology of Race/Ethnicity in the Era of Racial Genomics session, Panelist. “Race, Genomics, and the Global South” | NYC 8/12. Simmons College Race, Education, Democracy, and STEM Film screening and panel, Co-organizer and Panelist | Boston, MA 7/11. Harvard University Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting, Panelist. “Provincializing Science: Genomic Sovereignty and the Mapping and Marketing of Populations.” | Cambridge, MA 6/30. Law and Society Annual Meeting Race, Science, and Law, panelist. “People’s Science: Bodies, Rights and the ‘Race for Cures’ on the Stem Cell Frontier.” | Boston, MA 5/31. American Council for Learned Societies Annual Meeting, Invited speaker. “Provincializing Science: Mapping and Marketing Ethnoracial Diversity in the Genomic Age” | Baltimore, MD 5/10. UC Berkeley A New Development? Symposium, panelist. “Provincializing Science: 13 Genomic Sovereignty and the Mapping and Marketing of Populations.” | Berkeley, CA 4/5. UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, and Survival, panelist. “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.” | Berkeley, CA 3/15. Boston University African American Studies Program Panelist, “One Drop Rule: Colorism and Black Consciousness” | Boston, MA March.

2012— University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Invited discussant. “Drafting a Biopolitical Constitution Roundtable.” | Baltimore, MD Nov. Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, panelist. “Sankofa Science: a new-old toolkit for designing participatory science.” | Copenhagen, Denmark 10/20. American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Regular Session, Panel moderator | Denver, CO, Aug. Boston University African American Studies Program Organizer and moderator. “Black Power Mixtape 1967- 75” film screening | Boston, MA. Feb.

2011— Occupy Boston, Student-organized faculty teach-in panelist, Boston University | Boston, MA. Nov. Education Under Fire, film screening panel moderator, Boston University | Boston, MA. Nov. Biopolitical Imagination: Mapping the Future of Medicine on the History of Race”, Co-organizer and speaker. Boston University African American Studies Annual Symposium | Boston, MA. Feb.

2010— Harvard University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Invited discussant. “Ethical Itineraries of Science and Medicine: Culture & Technology in a Global World.” | Cambridge, MA. Dec. American Sociological Association Science, Knowledge & Technology Session, Panelist. “Ambivalence-in- Action: Racial & Gendered Genealogies of Stem Cell Recruitment & Resistance.” | Atlanta, Aug. American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Invited discussant. “Race, Genetics, and the Genome Project.” | Atlanta, GA. Aug.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Board Member NYU Critical Race + Digital Studies Advisory Board, Sept 2019 – present. Community Technology Collective Advisory Board, Oct 2019 – present. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, International Advisory Board. Science, Technology and Human Values (STHV) Editorial Board, 2018 – present. Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) International Board, 2018 – present.

American Sociological Association Elected Council Member-at-Large, American Sociological Association (2019 – 2022) Elected Council Member, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section (2015 – 2018) Committee Chair, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section Graduate Paper Prize (2016 – 2018) Session Co-organizer, Medical Sociology Session on Global & Translational Health (’14 – 2015) Committee Member, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section Oliver Cromwell Cox Article (2013) Committee Member, Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section Merton Book (2013) Committee Member, Medical Sociology Section Roberta Simmons Dissertation Award (2013) Committee Member, ASA Taskforce on Social Media (2013) Session Organizer, Regular Session on Medical Sociology (2012)

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Invited Program Co-chair, Section on Women, Science, and Gender (2014-2017).

14 Grant Review Wellcome Trust Ad-hoc Proposal Reviewer National Science Foundation Peer Review Grant Panelist and Ad-hoc Proposal Reviewer Economic and Social Research Council Ad-hoc Proposal Reviewer Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ad-hoc Proposal Reviewer

Book Manuscript Ad-hoc Reviewer Columbia University Press; Routledge Press; Polity Press; Oxford University Press;

Journal Manuscript Review Sociological Theory; Social Science and Medicine; Sociological Quarterly; Science as Culture; Biosocieties; Sociology; The Black Scholar; New Genetics and Society, PLOS Biology; Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Engaging Science, Technology, and Society; Science.

Past Editorial Board Member NYU Biopolitics Book Series; “Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences” Book Series.

Princeton University Service

2019-2020 (on leave) Princeton Envision Conference on Ethics and Technology Speaker, 11/22. The Standard Student Group Dinner Host, 11/19. Princeton Office of Information Technology (OIT) Faculty Lecture, 10/28. Princeton First Years Students Family Weekend Faculty Lecture, 10/12. Princeton Black Alumni “Thrive” Faculty Talk, 10/4. Prospective PhD Preview Faculty Lecture, 10/4.

2018-2019 President’s Ad Hoc Committee on the Classroom Learning Environment, member. President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Committee, member. Futuro Tutoring Program Chasing a Dream Benefit Gala Speaker, 5/4. PICS Professional Leadership & Development Speaker, 4/24. Princeton Preview Faculty Panel Speaker, 4/9. Princeton Black Pre-Medical Society Conference Speaker, 2/23. Winter Session Course Panelist, “Research until the Apocalypse” 1/31. Career Services and Graduate School Access, Diversity, and Inclusion Panel, 12/4. Forbes College Dinner Conversations Speaker, 11/27. Freshman Scholars Institute Summer Speaker Series, 7/25.

2017-2018 Society of Fellows, reviewer Black Organization for Leadership Development (BOLD) student group, co-advisor. Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, webinar, 9/27. Tea with Feminists, student discussion, 9/26. Senior Thesis Advisor: Imani Williams (WWS), Myesha Jemison (SPA, POR)

2016-2017 (on leave) Freshman Scholars Institute Summer Speaker Series, 7/19. Summer President’s Advisory Council Session Facilitator, 2/3.

15 2015 - 2016 Council on Teaching and Learning (two-year term) Faculty Committee on Committees (four-year term) Center for Digital Humanities Executive Committee (four-year term) Pan-African Graduation Presenter, 5/29. Princeton Women’s Mentoring Program Banquet Keynote Address, 5/3. Graduate Studies Panel on Race, Digital Media, and Social Networks, 4/20. Senior Thesis Advisor: Dashaya Foreman (WWS), Sophia Toles (WWS) Mellon Mays Undergrad Advisor: Sahand Rahbar ’17 (History), Briana Payton ’17 (Sociology) Princeton Council of the Humanities Magic Fund Information Session Panelist, 11/30. Survive, Rise, and Thrive Graduate Women of Color Lunch Workshop, Facilitator, 10/23 Ferguson is the Future: Speculative Arts & Social Justice Symposium Organizer, 9/12-14.

2014 - 2015 Senior Thesis: Sarah Yerima (Sociology), 2nd reader Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR), Advisory Board, April 2015-ongoing. Ivy Club Conversation on Race, Facilitator, 4/27. Princeton Preview Faculty Panel, 4/13. Wilson College “Race is Socially Constructed: Now What?” Discussion Facilitator, 4/13. Princeton Chapel Gathering Faculty Reflection, 4/12. Religious Life Council “Professor’s Night” Discussion, 3/30. Woodrow Wilson Student & Alumni of Color Symposium Panel Moderator, 3/28. Profound Ivy Black Student Athlete Mentoring Discussion, 3/27. Graduate Student of Color Hosting Weekend Keynote Speaker, 3/26. Breakout Trip on School Segregation, Advising Discussion, 3/5. Forbes College Faculty Fellow, Nov 14’-present. Society of Fellows Reviewer, Dec ‘14. Graduate Women of Color Professional Development Discussion, 11/24. History of Violence Against Black Bodies Discussion Moderator, 11/11. Black Alumni Weekend Center for African American Studies Panelist, 10/17.

African American Studies Departmental Service Student Advising Dissertation Committees: Kessie Alexandre (Anthro); Kim Bain (English); Shreya Subramani (Anthro) Senior Thesis: Avanthi Cole ‘18, Cierra Robson ’19 Junior Paper: Ozichi Okorom ’20, Matthew Oakland ‘20 Senior Colloquium Faculty Advisor, 2017-19.

Committees Priorities Committee, 2017-19. AAS-UCHV Search Committee, 2017-18. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2015-2017. Ruth Simmons Thesis Prize Committee, Spring 2016.

Organizer/Speaker Faculty-Graduate Seminar on “Biopolitics and Black Studies” Faculty Convener, 2015-16. Panelist “Reach-in, Teach-in: Black Activism and Consciousness at Princeton”, Dec 12, 2015. Prof. Victor Rios Colloquium Organizer, April 1, 2015. Prof. Matthew Hughey Colloquium Organizer, Feb 19, 2015. Senior Colloquium Faculty Leader, Feb 4 and April 1, 2015.

16 Black Thought in the Hour of Chaos, Welcome + Introductions, Nov 6, 2014. Graduate Student Funding Workshop Speaker, Nov 5, 2014.

Boston University Service Professor Voices President’s Day Video Reflections, Feb 2013. Admissions Office Video Recording, Feb 2013. BU Today “Free at Last” video reflections Jan 2013. Dean’s Summer Leadership Series, Invited workshop leader, June 2012. Multicultural Weekend “Coffee & Conversation” with Dean Elmore, Invited speaker, April ‘12 Admissions Office admitted student event, Baltimore, MD, Invited speaker, April ‘12. Student-led event on racial profiling, Invited speaker, April 2012. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Program, Invited speaker, Jan 2012. UMOJA (Black Student Union), Faculty Co-advisor, 2011-14. Multicultural Diversity Reception for prospective students, Participant, April ‘11, April ’12.

Boston University Departmental Service Sociology Graduate Program Committee, Sept 2013- Dec 2014. Sociology Annual Merit Review Committee, Spring 2012. Sociology Morris Fund Grant Review Committee, Spring 2012. Sociology Undergraduate Program Committee Member, 2011-12. Dissertation Committee Member: Cara Bowman (‘13-14). Qualifying Exams Advisor: M. Tinsley (‘13), C. Miller (‘14), A. Hernandez (‘14). International Student Masters Advisor: Jelena Stankovic (University of Padua, Italy, 2012). Senior Thesis Advisor: Erica Singer (‘13-14).

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Princeton University— “Race and Public Policy” Woodrow Wilson School Course, Guest Speaker | Feb 22, 2016. “Technology and Society” Undergraduate Course, Guest Speaker | April 6, 2016. “Modern Genetics and Public Policy” Undergraduate Course, Guest Speaker | Nov 2014.

Other Institutions and Programs— Oregon State University “Systems of Oppression-Strategies of Resistance” | Zoom 11/15/19. Brown University “Race, Rights, Rebellion” | Zoom 11/14/19. Synergy Quantum Academy High School in Los Angeles | Zoom 10/29/19 Arizona State University “Prisons, Borders, and Freedom Dreams” Graduate Seminar | Zoom 10/28/19. Columbia University “Emerging Tech, Media, and Society” Graduate Social Work Course | NYC 10/1/19. Brandeis University “Literary Mediascapes” Undergraduate Course | Zoom 9/17/19. W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute, faculty instructor | Summer 2017-2018 Brandeis University “Sociology of Body and Health” Course Guest Speaker | 9/14/16. Columbia Theological Seminary Capstone Course, Guest Speaker via Skype | 5/3/16. UT Austin “Race and the Body” PhD course via Skype | Nov 2014. BU “Foundations in Biomedical Sciences” Graduate Course Guest Speaker| Spring 2014. BU Rhett Talk “I Have a Nightmare: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Punishment” | Spring 2014 University of Texas Austin “Race and the Body” PhD course via Skype | Oct 2013. Salem College Sociology Senior Capstone undergraduate course | Skype, Sept 2013. Boston University “Technology, Society, and Policy” undergraduate course | March 2013. 17 Harvard University “Law, Science, and Society in America” undergraduate course | Feb. 2013. Boston University Social Science CORE, “Racial Inequality and Incarceration” module | Feb. 2013. Simmons College Social Work course “Racial Inequality and Incarceration” module | Oct 2011. Boston University “Social Epidemiology” undergraduate course | Spring 2011. UC Berkeley Sociology of Health, Medicine, and Illness w/Prof. Trond Petersen, Reader| Spring 2006. UC Berkeley Principles of Sociology with Prof. Brian Powers, Reader | Summer and Fall 2004. UC Berkeley Principles of Sociology with Prof. Mary Kelsey, Reader | Summer 2004. UC Berkeley Proseminar “Graduate School Preparation for Undergraduates” | Fall 2007 - Spring 2008. UC Berkeley Teaching Assistant “Introduction to Sociology” with Prof. Raka Ray | Fall 2006

PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT *indicates articles authored

2019 The Strand Bookstore in conversation with Prof. Charlton McIlwain | New York, NY 11/18. Harvey Mudd College Faculty Book Club | Zoom 11/15. Not in Our Town Lecture Series, Princeton Public Library | Princeton, NJ 11/4, 12/2. Red Emma’s Bookstore Book Talk | Baltimore, MD 10/9. Housing Works Bookstore Book Talk | New York, NY 10/1. Black Women for Wellness Los Angeles Talk | Los Angeles, CA 7/25.

2018— Not in Our Town, Board member, Princeton, NJ, ongoing. Princeton Public Schools Equity Study Circles, Princeton, NJ, ongoing. La Convivencia Interfaith Social Justice Leadership Conference Keynote Address, Princeton, NJ, 3/11. Nassau Presbyterian Church Mass Incarceration Speaker Series, Princeton, NJ, 2/18. Black Panther film discussion, Bristol-Meyers Squibb BOLD event, Hamilton, NJ, 2/16. Princeton High School Racial Literacy Class Guest Speaker, Princeton, NJ, 2/2.

2017— Not in Our Town “Truth & Reconciliation” Community Forum, 12/3. Princeton Garden Theatre “Prof Picks” Film Discussion, “Snowpiercer”, 11/29. Princeton Public High School Racial Literacy Professional Development Workshop Series, Oct-Nov. Princeton & Slavery Project Film Discussion “I Am Not Your Negro”, Princeton Public Library, 11/14. Princeton Public Library “Einstein on Race & Racism” Book Discussion Facilitator, Oct 10. Hopewell Valley Regional School District Annual Convocation Speaker, 9/5. Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, Invited Speaker, Princeton, NJ, 6/21. Urban Mental Health Alliance Roundtable, Invited Panelist, Trenton, NJ 5/20. Mercer County Public Schools “Day of Dialogue” Keynote Speaker, 3/23. The Overlake School MLK Day Speaker, Redmond, WA, 1/25. Peddie School MLK Day Speaker, Highstown, NJ, 1/16. Princeton Public Library, 13th film Post-Screening Community Discussion, Facilitator, 1/5.

2016— Princeton CHOOSE Classroom Index Panel on Race and Racism, Labyrinth Bookstore, 12/14. Mercer County Public Schools “Day of Dialogue” Keynote Speaker, 12/13. McCarter Theatre and Lewis Center for the Arts “Every 28 Hours” (E28H), Invited panelist, 10/24. 18 Princeton Not In Our Town “Racial Literacy” Six-Part Community Lecture and Film Series, Oct-Nov. EdTech Magazine, featured in “ISTE 2016: Technology Alone Cannot Create Social Equality,” 6/28. EdScoop, featured in “Education equity advocate urges teachers to embrace hacking mindset,” 6/28.

2015— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, quoted in “A Crispr Future,” 12/15. Nature, quoted in “Global Summit Reveals Divergent Views on Human Gene Editing,” 12/8. National Geographic, quoted in “Five Reasons Gene Editing is Both Terrific and Terrifying,” 12/3. STAT, quoted in “Global Summit Opens Door to Controversial Gene-editing of Human Embryos,” 12/3. Philadelphia Weekly, quoted in “Black sci-fi creators assemble at Princeton…,” 9/23. The Guardian, “Innovation and Equity in an Age of Gene Editing,” 5/19. * News at Princeton, featured in “Discriminatory Design in Medical, Scientific Research,” 3/9. Black Women for Wellness Monthly Breakfast, Invited Speaker, Los Angeles, CA. Princeton Public School District Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Princeton, NJ.

2014— “Healing Space Stations: Imagining the Future of Black Women’s Wellness”, Invited Speaker. Black Women for Wellness Reproductive Justice Conference| Los Angeles, CA (via video) 9/23. WHYY Public Radio, “Debating wider participation in medical research“, 8/14. SLICE of MIT, featured in “Social Hackers Empower Women”, 5/9. WGBH Basic Black TV panelist “Black History Icons: Respected, Revered, and… Repackaged”, 2/28. CNN, quoted in “The Power of Prejudice—and why you should speak up”, 2/6.

2013— Race, Education, and Democracy STEM Network of Greater Boston, collaborator, Sept 2013-June 2014. Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center Racial Health Disparities program, collaborator, 2012-13. Talking Biopolitics, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier”, Webinar, 6/25. Biopolitical Times, “Inside the Stem Cell Shell Games”, Book Review of People’s Science, 6/18. Wired, “Real-Life True Blood: Synthetic Blood is Coming—and So Are a Host of Potential Complications”, 6/14. Brookline HUB, “Booked”, Book review of People’s Science, 6/3. Huffington Post, “Playing the Game or Hacking the System?”, 6/5. * Publishers Weekly, Book Review of People’s Science, 4/29. Huffington Post, “Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?”, 4/17. * KPFA Sunday Show interview, “People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier“, 4/7. San Francisco Chronicle editorial, “Should researchers pay for women’s eggs?”, 4/4. Huffington Post, “Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions“, 3/25. *

2012— CNN, quoted in “Parallels to Country’s Racist Past Haunt Age of Obama”, 11/1. CNN Health, quoted in “The Power of Perceptions: Imagining the reality you want”, 4/14. Reprinted in WCVB TV BostonChannel.com. Howard Thurman Center Common Thread Podcast, guest panelist “The Color of Hate”, 3/30. New York Times, photo of my class in “Death of Florida Teen Spurs Outcry and Action”, 3/21. Good Magazine, quoted in “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been One of My Kids”, March 20: Reprinted in “Dissecting Geraldo Rivera’s Hoodie Comment.” DCentric: Race, Class, the District, 3/23. 19 Daily Free Press, quoted in: “Students express concerns about racial profiling”, April 12; “Students wear hoodies, demonstrate against Trayvon Martin’s death”, 3/26/12; “BU community reflects on King legacy, present-day struggles”, 1/17.

2011— The Quad: BU’s Independent Online Magazine, quoted in “BU Occupies Boston Teach-In: Professors Contextualize A Modern Movement”, 12/2. The Daily Free Press, quoted in “Professors discuss inequality, college debt at Occupy ‘Teach-in’, Dec 1; “The Office’ actor Rainn Wilson promotes education, equality”, 11/16. BUTV On That Point television program, guest speaker on “Postracialism”, 4/11.

OTHER GRANTS, AWARDS, & HONORS Boston University Morris Faculty Grant, 2012. Academic Enhancement Fund Fall 2011 and Spring 2012. UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Dissertation Research Grant, 2007. Townsend Center Stem Cells and the Humanities Dissertation Research Grant, 2005. UC Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (declined) 2002. Presidential Scholar Award, Spelman College, 1997-2001. Valedictorian Spelman College, 2001. Mortar Board National Honor Society, 2001. Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, 2001. Golden Key National Honor Society, 2000. Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 2000. YWCA College Woman of the Year Award, 2000.

OTHER CREATIVE WORKS Benjamin, Ruha. 2015. Black to the Future: In Memoriam (short story). Discover Society, Issue 21. Benjamin, Ruha. 2010. My People (poem). Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out. Inanna. Benjamin, Ruha and M. Olafani. 2002. Intersections (stage play), New York City and Atlanta.

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