Dr. Apryl Williams

Apryl Williams, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Media, Communication, and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the author of Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating (Stanford University Press) and The Injustice of Fairness (The University of California Press). Her previous research has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, and The Washington Post, among others. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Google, the Mozilla Foundation, the Notre Dame IBM Technology Ethics Lab, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. With an interdisciplinary background, her research is influenced by black feminism, technology studies, critical internet studies, critical race theory, and critical media studies. She explores the lived black experience as it is shaped by algorithmic technocultures, the gendered black body, and race and racism as they manifest and evolve in our contemporary artificially fragmented society.