Julia Lane received her Economics PhD from the University of Missouri in 1982, leading to a series of distinguished jobs including director of the Employment Dynamics Program at the Urban Institute, (senior) program director at the National Science Foundation, and tenured full professor at New York University.  Over her career, Dr. Lane has garnered many accolades, including elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Roger Herriot award from the American Statistical Association (where she is also an elected fellow), and the LEHD Founders award from the U.S. Census Bureau.  She has also been chosen to serve as a senior advisor for the White House, NIST, and Secretary of Labor, among other advisory roles.  Dr. Lane has also contributed authorship of several books (and edited several more) as well as 80+ research publications in outlets like Nature, Science, and the American Economic Review, as well as her first publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics with former Mizzou Economics professor Richard McHugh, and she has won $180+ million in grants and contracts.