Justin Hodgson is an award-winning educator and digital transformation leader at Indiana University, where he serves as Strategic Director for GenAI Faculty Initiatives and Director of the Digital Gardener Initiative — a system-wide series of programs designed to integrate digital literacy, digital creativity, and digital learning into the curriculum. Dr. Hodgson is also an Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric in the English Department at IU, the Founding Editor of The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (jumpplus.net), and an Adobe Digital Literacy Thought Leader. For the better part of 20 years, Dr. Hodgson’s work has explored the intersections of rhetorical studies, digital learning and digital pedagogy, play and game theory, and art and aesthetics. He has produced a variety of digital media artifacts as scholarship, published a number of articles on experimental course designs and approaches, and his book Post-Digital Rhetoric and The New Aesthetic (OSUP, March 2019), uses a contemporary aesthetic phenomena to offer a set of inventive guides for knowing, doing, and making in a post-digital culture. As an educator, Dr. Hodgson creates courses, designs workshops, and builds other learning experiences intended to extend student/participant capacities into and across digital platforms (ranging from introductory and advance GenAI practices to learning the basics of video production, from image creation to more advanced nuances of digital storytelling and experience design). He is a husband and father of two, and shares various musings (with varying [in]frequency) at justinhodgson.com