Robin Throne, PhD, is an author, editor, and researcher with expertise in qualitative methods, critical inquiry, policy analysis, and social justice research. She serves as a qualitative methodologist on dissertation committees and is a member of the Heirs Property Research Group at the Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board for the International Journal of Adult Education and Technology (IJAET) and is a peer reviewer for Elsevier and Common Ground Research.