Virginia Eubanks

Associate Professor, Political Science; Affiliate Faculty, English
Department of Political Science
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
Department of English
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Virginia Eubanks

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About

Virginia Eubanks is a longform investigative reporter, essayist, and memoirist. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith.

Her investigative reporting and personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, The Nation, Harper’s, and Wired. 

She is currently at work on a memoir about community violence, caregiving, and wilderness survival. With Andrea Quijada, she is also gathering oral histories of the global automated welfare state for Voice of Witness. She has been a fellow or resident at MacDowell, Edward Albee, New America, Carey Institute for Global Good and Blue Mountain Center.


 

Research Interests

Social Justice and Technology