Kelly L. Reddy-Best is currently a Morrill Professor in the Fashion Design and Merchandising program at Iowa State University (USA), where she also serves as the chief curator and director of ISU’s Textiles and Clothing Museum. Her research explores the intersections of dress, identity, consumption, regulation, and the fashion system, all through a social justice lens. In addition to her research, she has taught a wide range of courses across the fashion curriculum, covering design, product development, merchandising, culture, and history. Currently, she is co-program director for the Fashion Design and Merchandising program. Reddy-Best has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and authored two books: Conservation Concerns in Fashion Collections Caring for Problematic Twentieth-Century Textiles, Apparel, and Accessories (Kent State University Press, 2022) and Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury, 2025).