Virginia Eubanks

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. Contact email: me [at] virginia-eubanks.com Twitter: @PopTechWorks Media Requests: Sarah Becks, St. Martin’s Press, sarah.becks [at] stmartins.com Literary Representation: Sam Stoloff, Francis Goldin Literary Agency, agency [at] goldinlit.com Click on thumbnails below to download a high-res author photo or cover image.