Benjamin was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has appeared in over 30 different outlets, including The Messenger, Grid, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Pacific Standard, CityLab, Mother Jones, Complex, HuffPost, Paste Magazine, GOOD Magazine, and Medium, among others. He writes about technology, policing, and the military, among other areas. Benjamin holds a MA from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, with a focus on audio reporting and producing.