Dr. Julia Lane is a professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-founder of the Coleridge Initiative. Dr. Lane is an economist and statistician who has been actively involved in the management and linkage of federal, state, and local data as well as producing new data products. She has been involved in founding many successful and accessible data analysis platforms, including the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics program, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s PatentView, the integrated data infrastructure for Statistics New Zealand, the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, and the Coleridge Initiative’s Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF). She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute. Her most recent book is Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto, published by MIT Press.