Virginia Eubanks

Experience

1. Writer Professor

   University at Albany

   Aug 2004 — Present

   I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY and 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. My writing about technology and social justice has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, Harper’s, and Wired. For two decades, I worked in community technology and economic justice movements. I was a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a 20••••17 Fellow at New America. I live in Troy, NY.Until 2015, I was an economic justice organizer. I cofounded and led two community organizations for two decades. The first, Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), was an grassroots economic justice and welfare rights organization. The second, the Popular Technology Workshops, helped community organizations and social movements make the connection between technology and their other social justice goals. I\'ve stepped back from these organizations for the time being to concentrate on my writing, but social justice and community-based participatory research remain central to all the work that I do.I draw people into my writing, research, teaching and movement work with insight and enthusiasm, sharing what I\'ve learned and what I think we should do to help technology serve liberation. I do public talks targeted to hit audiences “where they\'re at,” and I\'ve appeared in dozens of bookstores, universities, festivals, and community contexts. I am comfortable writing about your great economic justice activism for broad national audiences, training social movement leaders, and facilitating workshops on technology and social change.

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Master of Science (MS), Rhetoric and Communication

  1997 — 1999

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), American Literary Culture

  1990 — 1994

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Science and Technology Studies

  1999 — 2004

Skills

• Community Outreach
• Grant Writing
• Training
• Research
• Community Organizing
• Program Development
• Strategic Planning
• Nonprofits
• Workshop Facilitation
• Fundraising
• Public Speaking
• Politics
• Teaching
• Qualitative Research
• Policy Analysis
• Facilitation
• News Writing