Chris Franklin is a Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator in Statistics at the University of Georgia and Lothar Tresp Honoratus Honors Professor (recognized as the UGA Outstanding Honors Professor 5 different years). She has been a recipient of the UGA’s Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Academic Advisor Award and UGA’s Arts and Sciences Sandy Beaver Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2008, Chris was inducted into the UGA Teaching Academy. She is the co-author of an Introductory Statistics textbook with Alan Agresti (Pearson 2012) and has published more than 50 journal articles. Chris was the lead writer for the American Statistical Association Pre-K-12 Guidelines for the Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Framework. She is a sought-after speaker on statistics education at the Pre K-12 and undergraduate levels. Chris is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served many years at the national and state level working in statistics education which includes the development and writing of standards in statistics for K-12. She completed her term serving as the AP Statistics Chief Reader in July 2009. Chris was honored in 2006 with the Mu Sigma Rho National Statistical Education Award for her teaching and lifetime devotion to statistics education.