Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an assistant professor at UCLA. She is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Noble’s academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture and technology design. Her critically acclaimed monograph on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines is entitled “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism” (NYU Press). She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, and is the co-editor of two books: “The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online,” and “Emotions, Technology and Design” and several articles and book chapters. Noble holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in sociology from California State University, Fresno, with an emphasis on African-American and ethnic studies.