"Investigative scholar of how automated systems police, profile, and punish the poor."
Virginia Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project. She has spent over two decades working directly with poor and working-class communities on issues of technology, welfare policy, and civil rights, combining academic research with grassroots organizing experience in upstate New York. Automating Inequality (2018) grew out of years of reporting inside Indiana's automated welfare system, Allegheny County's child-welfare risk-scoring program, and Los Angeles's homelessness services, and established her as one of the leading voices connecting algorithmic accountability to poverty and public policy.
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Virginia Eubanks traces how automated eligibility, risk-scoring, and coordinated-entry systems in Indiana, Pittsburgh, and LA profile and punish poor families — and…
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Virginia Eubanks traces how automated eligibility, risk-scoring, and coordinated-entry systems in Indiana, Pittsburgh, and LA profile and punish poor families — and why it's harder to fight a computer than a caseworker.
