Omar Wasow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He has been researching protests in the United States for the last 15 years and founded BlackPlanet.com in 2001 which went on to becoming the first social network to reach over 1M+ people.

Watch as Omar sits down with the Career Karma community and answers their questions.

Topics covered:
-what role tech plays in this moment as we think about racial inequality
-how social media plays a role in enabling protests/oppression
-law as code/a different kind of technology
-the important distinctions between consumers and creators
-empowering individuals to achieve the agency and autonomy they desire through the acquisition of skills and gaining mastery
-the future of higher ed
-and much more

Check out Omar’s research paper: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542000...
Follow Omar on Twitter:   / owasow  

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