Mary Anne Clive is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in natural hazard and risk communication. She received a BS in geology and a BA in communications from the College of Charleston in South Carolina (U.S.) in 2010 before moving to the University of Auckland in New Zealand, where she studied probabilistic volcanic hazard assessment and communication of model outputs for her PhD (2015). Her postdoctoral studies at the University of Auckland explored how people read and understand volcanic hazard maps. She joined GNS Science Te Pū Ao as a hazard and risk management scientist in 2018, where she has been the team leader of the Hazard and Risk Social Science team since 2021. She continues using inter- and transdisciplinary social science research approaches to explore how different audiences use, understand, and make inferences and decisions with natural hazard and risk information to develop better products and tools to empower informed decision-making.