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Joanna Lee is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Legal at CNCF and the Linux Foundation, where she drives complex strategic initiatives that are designed to impact the evolution of open source ecosystems, create high value new programs, improve health and sustainability of project communities, and/or improve the foundation's organizational capabilities. Joanna also supports conformance testing and certification programs, governance, licensing and compliance, and code of conduct incident response. Prior to joining the Linux Foundation and CNCF, Joanna served as a legal and strategic advisor to open source software foundations, technology standard setting consortia, and tech companies of varying sizes and stages of growth.  Joanna's prior experiences also include managing a social justice non-profit, technical project management at a global technology company, and academic research focused on the economics of innovation and technological change, organizational behavior, and policy and management.