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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Conversations for Change: Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and
even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333"><br>
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<span style="background:white">In this talk, Ruha explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately
doing quite the opposite. Ruha also helps attendees consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">This presentation delves into the world of <b>biased bots</b>,
<b>altruistic algorithm</b>s, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically-informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mqpS_pDtQAa3ANBipoQhAQ">Registration link</a> (free event)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">About the speaker:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">Ruha Benjamin is a Professor of African American studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
(Stanford University Press). She has studied the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine for over fifteen years and speaks widely on issues of innovation, equity, health, and justice in the U.S. and globally. She is also a Faculty Associate
in the Center for Information Technology Policy, Program on History of Science, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Department of Sociology, and serves on the Executive Committees for the Program in Global Health and
Health Policy and Center for Digital Humanities. Ruha is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2017 President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. Ruha received her PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral
fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Genetics and Society and Harvard.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is part of a <a href="https://www.ncwit.org/summit/agenda/28551">
series hosted by the National Center for Women and Information Technology</a>. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Amelia L. Vargas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Pronouns: She/Her/Hers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Program Director of Educator Pathways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#201F1E"><img border="0" width="243" height="87" style="width:2.5333in;height:.9083in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D62DFD.84D00750" alt="E9467134"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Oregon Department of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">255 Capitol Street NE, Salem, OR 97310<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4F81BD">Office phone: (503) 947-0712 </span>
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#F79646">*<i>if you leave me a voice message I will be able to return your call!</i></span></b><i><span style="color:#4F81BD"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Amelia.Vargas@state.or.us"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:blue">Amelia.Vargas@state.or.us</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D"> |
</span><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/EAC"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:blue">www.oregon.gov/EAC</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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