Dr. Amber Straughn is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Currently, she is the Deputy Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, responsible for science communications. She is also the Associate Director of the Astrophysics Science Division. Straughn's research focuses on interacting and star-forming galaxies in the context of galaxy assembly. Straughn received her B.S. in Physics from the University of Arkansas, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Arizona State University.