Benjamin delves into 'discriminatory design' in medical, scientific research

Ruha Benjamin, an assistant professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, is bringing her scholarly focus on "discriminatory design" - the idea that we can create technological fixes for social crises - into the classroom and to a wider audience with a TEDx Baltimore talk. Ruha Benjamin , who joined Princeton in 2014 as an assistant professor in the Center for African American Studies , started out as a drama major at Spelman College before switching to sociology.

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