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2018 Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Awards
Thursday, June 28, 2018
4:00 – 5:00 PM – Keynote Presentation: “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor” with author Virginia Eubanks
5:00 – 5:30 PM – Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Awards Presentation
5:30 – 7:00 PM – Networking Reception
About the Speaker:
Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. 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 writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. Today, she is a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a Fellow at New America. She lives in Troy, NY.
