Amy Hawn Nelson is Research Faculty and the Director of Training and Technical Assistance for Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), an initiative of the University of Pennsylvania that helps state and local governments collaborate and responsibly use data to improve lives. She has provided in-depth Technical Assistance in support of cross-sector data integration to 30+ sites across the US, including the development of 100+ data sharing agreements, and serving as an investigator on 25+ studies using integrated data to evaluate program and policy outcomes. Prior to joining AISP in 2017, Dr. Hawn Nelson was the Director of Social Research for the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and Director of the Institute for Social Capital, an integrated data system (IDS) in the Charlotte region. She is the lead author of A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration (2020), AISP’s Introduction to Data Sharing & Integration (2020). She is a community engaged researcher and has presented and written extensively on data integration and intersectional topics related to educational equity.