Kerri Lemoie, Ph.D. is the Director of the Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC), leading the overall strategy for a global group of higher education institutions working on developing trusted infrastructure for digital academic credentials. Through her more than 20 years of experience as a web developer she has served in leadership and advisory roles in a number of seminal projects in blockchain, interoperable standards, and decentralized identity. Kerri was one of the founding technical contributors to the widely-referenced Open Badges specification for data-rich verifiable credentials.