Lisa Federer is the Acting Director of the National Library of Medicine’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, serving as the principal advisor to the NLM Director for matters and programs concerning strategic directions of NLM, including AI, as well as analysis, evaluation, and reporting of and on NLM programs and activities. Prior to taking on this role, she served as NLM’s Data Science and Open Science Librarian. Before joining NLM, Lisa spent five years as the Research Data Informationist at the National Institutes of Health Library, where she developed and ran the Library’s Data Services Program. She holds a PhD in information studies from the University of Maryland and an MLIS from the University of California-Los Angeles, as well as graduate certificates in data science and data visualization.