Ruha Benjamin will serve as this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemoration keynote speaker. Dr. Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.

Dr. Benjamin is a prolific author and incisive commentator. Her keynote, titled “Who Owns the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination,” will address the social dimensions of science, medicine and technology, focusing on the relationship between innovation and social inequity.

She is author of the award-winning book “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” and “Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want”, the 2023 winner of the Stowe Prize, among many other publications. She recently released her fourth book, “Imagination: A Manifesto.”

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