Cori Faklaris (aka “HeyCori”) is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing. Faklaris received her PhD in human-computer interaction in 2022 from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She is an expert in social media, journalism, IT and UX, also known as a longtime “Doer of Things No One Else Wants to Do.”