Rebecca E. Heiser is an accomplished adult educator and distance researcher whose leadership emerges from learning design and evidence-based approaches to inform local, national, and international policy and practices. Working across contexts, including K12, non-profit, corporate, higher education and governmental agencies, Dr. Heiser aims to support lifelong learning through distance learning modalities. She serves as the Interviews Editor with the American Journal of Distance Education, and her research interests include quality dimensions in transnational distance education, internationalization strategies, equitable and human-centred technologies for learning, and systems perspectives of online and distance education.