About Virginia Eubanks

Virginia Eubanks joined the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Eubanks came to her research – “high-tech” development and women’s urban poverty in the United States – through a history of activism in community media and technology center movements, and is currently working on a book project entitled “Popular Technology: Citizenship and Inequality in the Information Economy.” She teaches courses in public policy, research methodology, and science and technology studies.

Professor Eubanks' areas of research focus include information technology and urban poverty in the United States; the relationship between public policy and feminist and anti-racist activism; and collaborative research, design and educational approaches such as popular education and participatory action research. Eubanks also founded the Popular Technology Workshops. Popular Technology Workshops focus on the impacts of technology on low-income people (in the welfare office, criminal justice system, economy and community). We meet every month to talk, network, organize, and act to create social and economic justice in the Capital Region. We believe that all people have the ability and the right to construct democracy, build strong community organizations, and make real and meaningful change.