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Virginia Eubanks
Co-Founder of Our Knowledge, Our Power & Associate Professor at University of Albany, SUNY
Virginia Eubanks is Associate Professor of Women's Studies. She joined the Deppartment in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She came to her research on technology, poverty and women's citizenship through a history of activism in community media and technology center movements. She is currently engaged in a four-year National Science Foundation funded research project exploring the citizenship effects of welfare administration technologies on clients and frontline caseworkers in New York State. She is also working (with Alethia Jones) on an edited volume of interviews and conversations with Barbara Smith, a pioneer of Black feminism and Albany Common Council member, which will be published by SUNY Press in 2013. Eubanks teaches courses in public policy, research methodology, and feminist science and technology studies.
Eubanks co-founded the Popular Technology Workshops, which serve as a place for ordinary people to come together to define and combat the social, economic and political injustices of the information age. She also among the founders of Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare, a grassroots welfare rights and anti-poverty organization, and is on the Board of Directors of Holding Our Own: A Fund For Women, the only grants-giving organization in the region that funds only programs dedicated to advancing feminist social change. Her activism and scholarship are grounded in the idea that people closest to problems have the best information about them, and are most invested in creating smart and sustainable solutions.
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