Dr. Hiller A. Spires is executive director and professor emerita of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and of the College of Education at North Carolina State University. Dr. Spires studies research-based practices for digital literacies, disciplinary literacies, and inquiry-based learning. She has conducted research on Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global for over a decade and, more recently, has applied it using the UN Sustainable Development Goals.