Silada Lydia Rojratanakiat is a former CPD contributing researcher and a graduate of USC Annenberg School of Communication with focuses on crisis communication and public diplomacy. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in politics and international relations at Thammasat University in Thailand. As a Royal Thai scholarship’s recipient, she works at the Department of Public Relations in a position of communications officer. While her professional focuses are on “fake news and misinformation” and political communication, her interests expand to crisis narratives, risk messages, and communication in tourism and hospitality settings.