Candi Carter Olson is an assistant professor at Utah State University. Her research interests focus on women's press clubs as agents of change, newswomen's history, and women's use of social media to build community and organize activist groups. She is a 2018 AEJMC Rising Scholar Research Award winner, and in the past received an American Association of University Women American Fellowship, a Mountain West Center research grant, and an American Journalism Rising Scholar award. Underserved Communities and Digital Discourse: Getting Voices Heard, a book she co-edited with Dr. Victoria L. LaPoe and Dr. Benjamin LaPoe, was published in October 2018.