Meredith Broussard

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City Lights presents Meredith Broussard. She celebrates the publication of her book “More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech” published by City Lights Books. This was a virtual event hosted by Peter Maravelis. You can purchase copies of “More Than a Glitch” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/more-than-a-glitch-race-gender-abi/ Meredith Broussard is Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World” (MIT Press). Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, BBC, Wired, the Economist, and more. She appears in the 2020 documentary “Coded Bias” and serves on the advisory board for the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies. More information at @merbroussard or meredithbroussard.com. This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

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