Lisa Brown is the director of the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded research, education and outreach program at the Pennsylvania State University with affiliates across Pennsylvania. She is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of the Consortium, including setting policy, evaluating Consortium projects, monitoring budgets, and collaboratively defining new directions. She also teaches a first-year seminar in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. She received her undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her Doctorate in Geosciences from Penn State University where she worked with Dr. James Kasting using computer models to study the chemistry and climate of the primitive atmospheres of Earth and Mars.