Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin is a Princeton University sociologist and the founder of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab, whose work examines how race and technology co-constitute each other. She is not a critic of technology who happens to be interested in race, nor a race scholar who happens to study technology. Her central claim is that race is not merely a variable that technology mishandles; it is a design principle that technology embeds and extends. The New