Lisa R. Johnston is the director of Data Governance leading the campus program and policy for institutional data. This role involves chairing the Data Governance Council, establishing and executing strategic priorities for the program, and collaborating with the institutional data stewards across data domains. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March 2022, Johnston was Research Data Services lead at the University of Minnesota Library and served in numerous roles including director of the Data Repository for U of M (DRUM) and principal investigator/founder for the Data Curation Network (https://datacurationnetwork.org/). Teaching and research interests include data literacy, data management, data ethics, and data curation. Johnston holds a Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics and a Master of Library Science (MLS), both from Indiana University. In her free time she enjoys bike commuting, board games, and home renovation projects.