Dr. Pierrette Renée Dagg is the Director of Research for Merit Network at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She oversees Technology Impact Research, Network and Cybersecurity Research, and R&D. She serves as a Research Associate at the Quello Center for Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University and is an Adjunct Professor at Oakland Community College. Pierrette is also the Area Chair, Intellectual Property and Copyright, at the Pop Culture Association, and a member of the AI Policy Subcommittee at the University of Toledo. She chairs the AI Innovations Working Group at Merit Network. She has recently completed her work as a Fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, where she published case studies on broadband community champions.