Safiya Umoja Noble is an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she cofounded and codirects the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She is also a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Her work explores the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. Serving on several advisory boards, Noble is the bestselling author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. Noble is coeditor of The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online and Emotions, Technology & Design, an associate editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and coeditor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. A recipient of the Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award, she was named in the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers of 2019” by Government Technology magazine.
