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Keri K. Stephens is professor of organizational communication and technology, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and co-director of the Technology & Information Policy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. For over 20 years her interdisciplinary research has brought together different strands of communication inquiry: i.e., mobile and AI technologies, organizations, crisis/disasters, and health. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications appearing in prestigious research journals, proceedings, and books and her two most recent books (Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication and New Media in Times of Crisis) have won three national-level awards. Her research has garnered over $10 million USD in external funding including 12 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants, 12 State Grants, and industry and foundation funding. She has given over 30 international and US-based keynote talks, a TEDxTalk, and her community-engaged work has received awards from both the National and State Association of Counties. She has published with over 70 different graduate students, and her advisees have won four dissertation awards, and career awards such as the ICA Linda Putnam Early Career Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the NSF Dissertation Award.