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Join us for a book chat between author Afua Bruce (Ross MBA '11) and Michigan Ross Business+Impact Faculty Director Jerry Davis on her vision of a more equitable and just world along with practical steps to creating it, appropriately leveraging technology along the way.

AFUA BRUCE is a leading public interest technologist who has spent her career working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Her work has spanned the government, non-profit, private, and academic sectors, as she has held senior science and technology positions at DataKind, the White House, the FBI, and IBM. Afua is currently a strategy consultant and advisor to organizations developing and expanding public interest tech projects in both the corporate, government, and nonprofit spaces. She is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Technology and Public Purpose Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. As an If/Then Ambassador, Afua engages in efforts to excite girls to consider STEM careers; she has partnered with GoldieBlox, appeared on CBS's Mission Unstoppable TV show, and is featured in a number of museums around the country. Afua has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Her newest book, "The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Technologists, and Philanthropists can Build an Equitable World," describes how technology can advance equity. Buy the book here: https://www.porchlightbooks.com/product/tech-that-comes-next-how-changemakers-philanthropists-and-technologists-create-an-equitable-world--amy-sample-ward