Sherilyn Williams-Stroud is a Research Geologist and Interim Director for Research at the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of expertise include structural geology, fracture analysis, and fracture modeling for geological energy production, with a specialization in microseismic data interpretation and induced seismicity. She received her MA and PhD from The Johns Hopkins University and BA from Oberlin College and has more than 30 years of experience in government, industry, and academia, having held adjunct positions at the University of Houston, California State University LA and Northridge, and has been a full-time faculty member at Whittier College. She received the AAPG Honorary Membership Award in 2022 for her contributions to understanding induced seismicity and her work on diversity in the geosciences, was a member of the NASEM Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, and currently serves on the National Petroleum Council Coordinating Subcommittee GHG study.