The New York Times called her book 'riveting', which was 'an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy'. In 2018, Eubanks published the book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. She was featured in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias directed by Shalini Kantayya. She also co-edited Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith alongside Alethia Jones. OKOP was a member organization of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) until it disbanded in 2015.Įubanks has written two books: Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age (2011) and Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018).

In 2005, she was a founding member of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a welfare rights and economic justice group. Eubanks also co-founded the Popular Technology Workshops, which served as a place for ordinary people to come together to define and combat the social, economic and political injustices of the information age. She was a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a Fellow at New America in 2016–17.

Her research examines the intersection of community technology, poverty, women's citizenship, and social justice. Career and research Įubanks joined the faculty at the University of Albany, SUNY after completing her PhD in 2004. She attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for her graduate studies, where she earned a Masters of Science in Communication and Rhetoric in 1999 and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies in 2004. Her book uncovers the harms generated by computer algorithms to replace human decisions and how they negatively impact the economically disadvantaged.Įubanks graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Culture in 1994 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Previously Eubanks was a Fellow at New America researching digital privacy, economic inequality, and data-based discrimination.Įubanks has written and co-edited multiple award-winning books, the most well-known being Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. She is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. Virginia Eubanks is an American political scientist, professor, and author studying technology and social justice. Popular technology: Citizenship and inequality in the information economy (2004) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S., PhD) University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A.) Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

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