Ifeoma Ajunwa

Ifeoma Yvonne Ajunwa is a writer and professor of labor relations, law, and history at Cornell University.

Ajunwa received her BA at University of California, Davis in 2003, her JD at University of San Francisco School of Law in 2007, and her MPhil and PhD in Sociology at Columbia University in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Ajunwa was a McNair Scholar as an undergraduate student, received an AAUW Selected Professions Fellowship in law school, and was a Paul F. Lazersfeld Fellow as a PhD student. Ajunwa's PhD thesis was advised by Josh Whitford.

Ajunwa is an assistant professor of labor & employment law at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an associate faculty member at Cornell Law School. Previously, she was a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a Microsoft Research NYC Research Intern.

Ajunwa does research in "organizational behavior of organizations, particularly in relation to stigma/social evaluation, diversity, and the adoption of new technologies". She will publish a book - "The Quantified Worker" - with Cambridge University Press in 2019.

Ajunwa's awards and honors include:

• 2018: Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools
• 2018-2019: Keeton House Fellow, Cornell University
• 2019: NSF CAREER Award

Ajunwa's writing includes:

• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "Beware of Automated Hiring", The New York Times, October 8, 2019
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, "Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated in the Labor Market", Northwestern University Law Review, June 8, 2018
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "The Rise of Platform Authoritarianism", ACLU, April 10, 2018
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "Facebook users aren’t the reason Facebook is in trouble now", Washington Post, March 23, 2018
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, Kate Crawford, Jason Schultz, "Limitless Worker Surveillance", California Law Review, June 1, 2017
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "Corporate Surveillance Is Turning Human Workers Into Fungible Cogs", The Atlantic, May 19, 2017
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "Workplace Wellness Programs Could Be Putting Your Health Data at Risk", Harvard Business Review, January 19, 2017
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "A call to 'ban the box' on college applications", Washington Examiner, November 10, 2015
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "The other big US Supreme Court decision we should be celebrating is one no one’s talking about", Quartz, June 29, 2015
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "There’s No Guarantee of Anonymity", The New York Times, March 4, 2015
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "Do You Know Where Your Health Data Is?", Huffington Post, February 13, 2015
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "For Ebola Response - Think Infrastructure, Not Donations", Huffington Post, November 30, 2014
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "West Africa Does Not Need Your Donations to Fight Ebola", Huffington Post, November 13, 2014
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, "Genetic Data and Civil Rights", Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, July 1, 2014

• "Present Value: ILR’s Ifeoma Ajunwa on the ethical challenges of technology in the workplace", Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, July 25, 2019
• "Ethical Challenges with Technology in the Workplace", Present Value Podcast, July 8, 2019
• "The Quantified Worker and Worker Surveillance with Ifeoma Ajunwa", Yale Podcast Network, April 9, 2019
• "Cornell Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa Discusses Artificial Intelligence Used In Hiring", NPR, April 8, 2019
• "Controversies of Ethics & Technology in Modern Workplace", TEDx Talks, December 3, 2018
• "The Way We Work: How can we protect data privacy?", Humanyze, 2018