Athena Aktipis, Ph.D., is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Aktipis is an avid science communicator, hosting the science podcast, Zombified, and producing events across the country and internationally at universities, community spaces, and festivals. She is passionate about building interdisciplinary teams to tackle tough questions, empowering students to learn about the topics they are most curious about, and leveraging cooperation science to improve our universities and the broader communities in which we are all embedded. Her first book, The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer (Princeton University Press, 2020), explains how cancer is a result of a breakdown of multicellular cooperation. She is currently on tour for her second book, A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times (Workman, 2024). She also writes for Scientific American, Slate, Aeon, and other magazines.