Carrie Heitman is an Associate Professor of anthropology and the Associate Director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a globally engaged anthropologist, Southwestern archaeologist, and digital humanist, with a professional mission is to share inclusive pasts to build inclusive futures. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Virginia (2011) and, among other topics, her research explores how new technologies can support scholarly communication and facilitate responsible and inclusive digital access to cultural heritage information. Dr. Heitman has helped lead various collaborative, open-access digital cultural heritage projects including the Chaco Research Archive and the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection. In addition to her digital scholarship, she has published various books and articles and has received two national anthropology awards. She is the project director for the (Re)Connections Through Time project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project is a partnership with The Hopi Tribe, the Pueblo of Zuni, the National Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.