The Shame Machine: Cathy O'Neil discusses her book with the First-year students

First-Year Forum

Please join Barbara Alfano and Katie Montovan for a conversation with author Cathy O'Neil.
 
Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard and worked as a math professor at Barnard College before switching over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and in 2016 wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. She is the CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, and is a member of the Public Interest Tech Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her new book The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation is coming out in March 2022.

This event is open to the Bennington College community.