Laurie Moberg (she/her) is the editor for Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, an open access, digital journal of public scholarship published at the University of Minnesota by the Institute for Advanced Study and U of M Libraries Publishing. She earned her PhD in anthropology from the U of M in 2018 and her research investigates the material and social effects of recurrent episodes of flooding on rivers in Thailand. In her current work, she approaches public scholarship as a critical strategy for expanding whose stories are heard, for shaping our public conversations, and for forming solutions for our shared ecological challenges.