2025 Spring Distinguished Lecture: Safiya Noble (talk + fireside chat with Patricia Hill Collins and Catherine Knight Steele)
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, College Park Campus
Description: Algorithmic bias and discrimination expert Safiya Noble, Ph.D. is presenting the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland’s Spring Distinguished Lecture! Register to attend her lecture and fireside chat on Tuesday, April 1.
Dr. Safiya U. Noble
Bio: Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Dr. Noble is the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination.
Speaker(s): Safiya U. Noble, UCLA, Author of "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism"