I am the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management and the Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I have had over 200 journal articles published and 14 books on various network themes including supply chains. My recent awards include being elected a Fellow of the Network Science Society in 2019 and also receipt of The Constantin Carathedory Prize from the International Society of Global Optimization. In 2020 I received the Harold Larnder Prize, and am only the second female to receive this award, which has been given annually for 35 years.