Tressie McMillan Cottom is a sociologist who examines education, technology and inequality.  Tressie was a fellow with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research-New England. Recent publications include studies on digital autoethnographies considers social media as a critical intersectionality praxis and a paper on academic capitalism and attention economies is forthcoming from ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. Her forthcoming manuscript from The New Press on for-profit credentialism includes analysis of the role of technology in reconstituting inequality.This event is sponsored by the School of Information Diversity Committee and MESA/Trotter.