Keri K. Stephens is the George Christian Centennial Professor in Organizational Communication Technology and Co-Director of the Technology and Information Policy Institute at the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her research on disaster communication, organizing, infrastructure systems, and technology has produced 140+ peer-reviewed publications, and she has secured $10 million in external funding as a PI or CoPI. She is an International Communication Association Fellow, a TEDx presenter, and an award-winning community-engaged scholar.