Kathy A. Mills is Professor of Literacies and Digital Cultures at the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE), Australian Catholic University, Brisbane. Her internationally recognised research on digital media and contemporary literacy practices makes influential theoretical contributions to the field, with an extensive publication record of over 120 scholarly works, including nine books (8 lead-authored), the majority of her work first-authored. These have been cited over 6500 times across 83 countries and 25 academic disciplines. Her latest book, Critical Literacy for an AI World offers timely solutions for teachers to address AI-generated media in the classroom. Professor Mills has won six Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, lead or Fellow on five, most notably a distinguished ARC Future Fellowship. She currently leads a major ARC Discovery grant investigating the educational potential of artificial intelligence and extended reality (XR) technologies in multimodal literacy learning. Professor Mills is recognised for dynamic, insightful, and memorable presentations, having delivered 27 invited keynotes in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Mexico, Chile, and AUS. Beyond the podium, Prof Mills’ research has had worldwide public reach through invitations by public media through 52 news outlets and 150k+ readers worldwide. She has translated her research to end-users and the general public via television, radio, online news, and newspapers.