Dr. Caddie Alford (she/her) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University where she is co-director of the critical AI Futures Lab. She specializes in digital rhetoric, rhetorical theory, platform studies, feminisms, and writing pedagogies. Her research inquiries can broadly be described as inquiries into the power Big Tech wields and how that power disenfranchises the most vulnerable. For three years she served as the book review editor for the journal enculturation. Starting in Fall 2025, she will be the Associate Co-Editor of Special Issues for Rhetoric Society Quarterly.