Benjamin authored People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013), Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022).

[4] In 2013, Benjamin's first book, People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier, was published by Stanford University Press.

[5] In it, she critically investigates how innovation and design often builds upon or reinforces inequalities, including how and why scientific, commercial, and popular discourses and practices around genomics have incorporated racial-ethnic and gendered categories.

[7] In it, Benjamin expands upon her previous research and analysis by focusing on a range of ways in which social hierarchies, particularly racism, are embedded in the logical layer of internet-based technologies.

'"[16] Several high school students in attendance felt unsafe, and one student reportedly said they “felt so targeted, so unsafe, that we tucked our Magen Davids [Jewish stars, a historic symbol of Jewish peoplehood] in our shirts and walked out as those around us glared and whispered.”[17] In response to the criticism, the head of the NAIS issued an apology and said, "There is no place for antisemitism at NAIS events, in our member schools, or in society.

[23] On April 11, 2024, at Spelman College's Founders Day Convocation, she received an honorary Doctor of Science degree.