Certifiable telecom policy wonk and a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Traci Morris is Executive Director of the American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University and the founder and president of Homahota Consulting LLC a national Native American woman-owned professional services firm working in policy analysis, telecommunications, education, and research assisting tribes in their nation-building efforts and working with Native Nations, tribal businesses and those businesses working with tribes.

Morris is an academic and a nationally recognized and published expert on tribal broadband and communications. A sought after public speaker, consultant, and author, Morris has a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies. She has taught college courses, authored books, and articles, presented numerous professional papers and white papers, worked with Native media makers, artists and galleries, written a college accredited curriculum in Native American new media, and has advocated for digital inclusion at the Federal Communications Commission and on Capitol Hill.