Dr. Camelia Kantor is currently the Associate Director of the Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and Research Professor (Geospatial Intelligence and Biogeography). Prior to Penn State, she was the Director, then Vice President at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) in Herndon, VA. At USGIF, Kantor revamped the USGIF certificate accreditation and professional certification, led the major updating of the GEOINT Body of Knowledge, and pioneered high school to industry career pathways, microcredentials, and badging. She served as the senior academic advisor on GEOINT programs, leading GEOINT certificate accreditation, guiding curriculum, faculty professional development through competency-based certifications, industry training, and resource allocation. Dr. Kantor holds a Ph.D. in Geography with emphasis on Human Geography, an MBA, and a Master’s in Regional Development with emphasis on critical border issues. Her current role is largely administrative, leading strategic planning, program evaluation, and budget allocations, and interdisciplinary initiatives for over 28 of Institutes and Centers, 11 core facilities, and 6 graduate programs. Her research focuses on biosecurity and applying geography principles and geospatial technologies to agriculture, the field of nematology, in particular. She studies nematode dispersal and migration and biotic/abiotic factors contributing to forest disease spread and their impact on the bioeconomy. In her spare time, she enjoys mushroom foraging, forest hiking, cooking, and baking.