Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin
Born	1978 Wai, Maharashtra, India
Academic background
Education	Spelman College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Institutions	Princeton University
Main interests	Science, Medicine, and Technology; Race-Ethnicity and Gender; Knowledge and Power
Website	www.ruhabenjamin.com

Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.^[1] The primary focus of her work is the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly the intersection of race, justice, and technology. Benjamin is the author of numerous publications, including the books People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013), Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022).

In 2024, she was named a MacArthur fellow.