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As a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Traci Morris is an expert in federal Indian policy, telecommunications and digital culture. 

Morris has worked with Native American nations, Tribal businesses, Native American non-profits and has advocated for digital inclusion at the Federal Communications Commission and on Capitol Hill.

Morris is the Executive Director of the American Indian Policy Institute. Under her leadership, the AIPI has grown and diversified its service to Indian Country providing policy analysis, tribally driven research, and economic development capacity building and working with such Indian Country partners as NAFOA, AISES and the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative.

Morris鈥檚 research and publications on Native American media and the digital divide are focused on Internet use, digital inclusion, network neutrality, digital and new media curriculums and development of broadband networks in Indian Country.

Dimitra Simeonidou is a Full Professor at the University of Bristol, the Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, and the Director of Smart Internet Lab, leading on optical networks, network convergence, 5G/6G networks, and Internet infrastructure. Her research is focusing on the fields of high-performance networks, programmable networks, wireless-optical convergence, 5G/B5G, and smart city infrastructures. She is increasingly working with Social Sciences on topics of digital transformation for society and businesses. Professor Simeonidou has been the Technical Architect and the CTO of the smart city project Bristol Is Open. She is currently leading the Bristol City/Region 5G urban pilots. She is the author and co-author of over 600 publications, numerous patents, and several major contributions to standards. She has been a co-founder of two spin-out companies, the latest being the University of Bristol VC funded spin-out Zeetta Networks, delivering SDN solutions for enterprise and emergency networks.

Education
1987 - BSc Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1989 - MSc Telecommunications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1994 - PhD Optical Communications , University of Essex

Affiliations
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, and a Royal Society Wolfson Scholar