Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up with Lauren Maffeo

IMPACT Podcast Series

On today’s IMPACT podcast we speak with Author and Adjunct professor at George Washington University in DC Lauren Maffeo. Lauren’s book Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up, Six Steps to Build a Data-Driven Culture lays out how to build a cross-functional strategy to create roadmaps and stewardship for data-focused projects, embed data governance into your engineering practice, and put processes in place to monitor data after deployment.
Lauren Maffeo, author of Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up
Lauren is an award-winning designer and analyst who currently works as a senior service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and a former area editor for Data and Policy, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press. Lauren has written for Harvard Data Science Review, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among other publications. Lauren is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Speakers Program, and a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, where she helps judge the Webby Awards. Her first book, Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up, is published by The Pragmatic Programmers and has been adapted into a LinkedIn Learning course.
Get your copy of Lauren's book HERE.