Julia Lane

Julia Lane

Julia Lane is a Professor in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She has co-founded or co-initiated a number of national public data infrastructures, including the LEHD program at the Census Bureau, and served on the National AI Research Resources Taskforce. She is the author of “Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto.”

Satellite view of the United States at night reveals illuminated cities and areas, with dense clusters of lights in the eastern region, highlighting vibrant economic hubs reminiscent of workforce data concentrations, contrasted by the sparser illumination in the western regions. America’s workforce desperately needs a data overhaul
A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI's impact on jobs.