The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts' Distinguished Lecture Series presents Moya Bailey, "Authenticity in AI Times." As our universities push AI into the administrative and classroom dynamics of our campuses, some of us question how we remain true to the values of higher education that drew us to the profession. Professor Moya Bailey's talk invites us to imagine critical thinking in a world on fire, with less and less water to put it out because of datacenters and AI everywhere. Moya Bailey is a Professor at Northwestern University and is the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021). She is an award-winning documentarian after completing the short documentary You Just Watch & See (2025) featuring her late Cousin Dollie, and she is completing a docuseries Misogynoir in Medicine. This talk is part of the 2026-2027 Distinguished Lecture Series presented by the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts and in connection with the DCHA annual theme, "Authenticity: Identity & Place." The event will be held in person at the Denbo Center, with streaming also available.