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We're curious and creative problem solvers who look at every challenge through a behavioral lens. We collaborate generously, have fun doing it, and take real ownership of our work. We push rigorously until we find an elegant solution to a complex problem.

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Team

Meet the Team

  • Adam Struck

    Associate Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Research assistant and behavioral science contractor
    Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania
    easter egg: Loves to watch and talk about “Survivor” and play card games

  • Alejandro Rosales

    Associate Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Writer of multiple award-winning articles published through USA Today news network
    Education: B.S. journalism, Syracuse
    easter egg: He has an expanding LEGO set collection

  • Aleksandra Poiter

    Controller

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    Focus: Finance
    Experience: World Central Kitchen
    Education: C.P.A., University of Maryland; M.B.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    easter egg: She pets every dog she meets

  • Alissa Fishbane

    Managing Director

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    Focus: (Un)warranted
    Experience: Managing Director, Deworm the World; Latin America Director, Innovations for Poverty Action
    Education: M.P.P., Harvard; B.A. political economy, UC Berkeley
    easter egg: Chasing water, mountains, and barefoot weather

  • Allison Schachter

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Pathfinder International; U.S. Department of State; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Education: M.P.H., Emory; B.A. international affairs, George Washington
    easter egg: Moonlights as an indoor cycling instructor

  • Amel Benzerga

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development
    Experience: Independent consultant on projects for the World Bank, UNICEF, World Vision, and WHO; Behavior Change Associate, Common Thread
    Education: M.P.P., Sciences Po Paris; B.S., University College of London
    easter egg: Lived in five countries before turning 19

  • Ana Victoria Gil

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Thought Leader, Teladoc Health; Researcher, Yale Influence & Persuasion Lab
    Education: M.A.M., Yale; M.B.A., INCAE; B.A. cognitive science, UC San Diego
    easter egg: Born in Costa Rica; naturally allergic to cold weather

  • Anne Stotler

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: (Un)warranted
    Experience: Public service delivery and innovation, U.S. Department of State; housing programs for domestic violence survivors
    Education: M.P.P., Harvard; B.A. history, University of Virginia
    easter egg: Aiming to read 50 books this year

  • Anthony Hernandez

    Business Operations Manager

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    Focus: Business Operations
    Experience: Marketing Communications, Rutgers Admissions; Athletic Communications, Rutgers Athletics
    Education: B.A. communications and English, M.B.A. marketing, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
    easter egg: Native of the Jersey Shore

  • Arshele Tyus

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Network leader, educational nonprofit; college access programs, Detroit and New York City
    Education: M.P.A., New York University
    easter egg: Goal is to hike in every state

  • Ashley García

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Three-plus years developing behavioral interventions and building partner capacity in nonprofits and financial health
    Education: B.A. sociology and women's & gender Studies, Hamilton
    easter egg: Avid thrifter; will cry and laugh at a cheesy rom-com

  • Brittany Muscato

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: NYU Furman Center; Adjunct Professor, NYU Wagner
    Education: M.P.A., New York University
    easter egg: Enjoys baking, boxing, and wandering around NYC

  • Caitlin Marksteiner

    Project Operations Manager

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    Focus: Financial Health operations
    Experience: Massachusetts Office of the State Treasurer; AmeriCorps
    Education: M.A. public policy, Simmons; B.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    easter egg: Plays keyboard in a band; bakes elaborate gluten-free cakes

  • Cameron French

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Harper's Magazine; Character Lab; Behavioral Scientist
    Education: B.A. psychology, Swarthmore
    easter egg: Find him playing soccer, hugging trees, or deep in a long read about tea

  • Carolina Better

    Managing Director

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    Focus: Global Development
    Experience: Research Director, Collage Group
    Education: M.A. international & development economics, University of San Francisco; B.A. economics & communications, Pennsylvania State
    easter egg: Born and raised in Ecuador; trying to raise trilingual children

  • Cassie Taylor

    Managing Director

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    Focus: Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Behavioral Economics & Decision Research Policy Lab, Carnegie Mellon
    Education: M.S. applied learning science, Carnegie Mellon; A.B. psychology, Princeton
    easter egg: Built out a campervan to travel for hiking and canyoneering

  • Dan Rosica

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Center for Advanced Hindsight; Behavioral Insights Team, Geisinger Health System
    Education: M.A. behavioral & decision sciences, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. economics & psychology, UCLA
    easter egg: Avid cyclist; was on the UCLA baseball team

  • Eleni Fischer

    Associate Managing Director

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Karen Karp & Partners (sustainable food systems); McLarty Associates
    Education: M.P.P. and B.S. foreign service, Georgetown
    easter egg: Will make you your favorite dessert for your birthday

  • Erik Simmons

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College; World Bank, Southeast Asia
    Education: Ph.D. psychological sciences, University of Queensland
    easter egg: Former professional mixed martial arts coach; writing his second book

  • Eva Matos

    Managing Director

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    Focus: Government and Narrative Change
    Experience: Global Program Coordinator, Oxfam; projects in DRC, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Liberia
    Education: M.A. social policy, London School of Economics; B.A., George Washington
    easter egg: In another life: marine biologist by day, stand-up comedian by night

  • Evelyn Stark

    Managing Director

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: MetLife Foundation; Gates Foundation; USAID
    Education: B.A. economics and international relations, Bucknell
    easter egg: Foreclosed malls and a horse, then switched to her career to focus on microfinance in Uganda

  • Faraz Haqqi

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development
    Experience: Center for Global Development; field research across South Asia, East Africa, and Central America
    Education: M.P.A., Cornell; B.A., University of Maryland

  • Grace Roebuck

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Johns Hopkins International Art+Mind Lab; HKS Architects
    Education: B.A. psychology & studio art, Vassar
    easter egg: Writes letters by hand; always searching for new cafes and artist spaces

  • Gustavo Galo

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Cultural Neuroscience Lab, Pomona
    Education: B.A. psychology & applied Mathematics, Pomona
    easter egg: Pursues makeup artistry, roller skating, and Sudoku in equal measure

  • Jack Kroger

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
    Education: M.Sc., London School of Economics; B.S., Carnegie Mellon
    easter egg: Enjoys supporting his favorite soccer clubs

  • Jen Shafer

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Human-centered designer; talent strategist; aging researcher; M&A consultant; talent analyst and strategist
    Education: M.S. integrated design & management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.A. psychology, Rice
    easter egg: Burgeoning runner and land art enthusiast

  • Jessica Li

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development
    Experience: The People Lab; Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit; Healthy Learners; PATH
    Education: M.P.P., UC Berkeley; B.A. geography, Colgate
    easter egg: Loves cooking for friends and exploring new restaurants

  • Julia Ritz Toffoli

    Associate Managing Director

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Open Society Foundations’ Strategy Unit
    Education: M.I.A. human rights advocacy, Columbia; B.A. political science & sociology, McGill
    easter egg: Goal to go thrifting and antiquing in all 50 states

  • Kate Boyer

    Vice President

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    Focus: People and Business Operations
    Experience: People experience, strategy, operations, people leadership
    Education: Background in nonprofit leadership
    easter egg: Self-proclaimed native Atlantan; loves exploring the Atlanta restaurant scene

  • Katherine Flaschen

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development and Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Behavioral Scientist, The Decision Lab; Product Manager, TripAdvisor
    Education: M.A. behavioral marketing & consumer behavior, Stanford
    easter egg: Designs nudges by day; negotiates with toddler by night

  • Kathleen Addison

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative; Women's March; Better Mortgage
    Education: M.P.P., Harvard; B.A. psychology, Yale
    easter egg: Loves live theater and hypothesizing about what's killing her houseplants

  • Lee-Sien Kao

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Health and Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Workforce development, public health, and vaccination; Health Policy Fellow, Dartmouth
    Education: B.A. economics, Brown
    easter egg: Avid cook, crafter, and crossword enthusiast

  • Leslie Heilbrunn

    Chief Communications Officer

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    Focus: Communications
    Experience: Founder, Tekka Consulting; Director of Marketing & Sales, Portland General Electric; Executive Editor, Seventeen magazine
    Education: B.A. social sciences, University of Michigan
    easter egg: Makes almost everything—including condiments!—from scratch

  • Lia Weintraub

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Senior Campaign Strategist, Center for Secure and Modern Elections; media relations, Center for Popular Democracy
    Education: M.P.A., New York University; B.A., Tufts
    easter egg: Satisfies her creative appetite through cooking, knitting, gathering, and painting

  • Lois Aryee

    Associate Managing Director

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Evaluation Coordinator, Innovations for Poverty Action, Ghana; Graduate Researcher, New York University
    Education: M.P.A., New York University; B.A. economics, DePauw

  • Maddie Kau

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Five years applying behavioral science to global public health
    Education: B.A. economics, Brown

  • Maheen Shermohammed

    Research & Evaluation Lead

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    Focus: Research & Evaluation
    Experience: Behavioral Insights Team, Geisinger Health System
    Education: Ph.D. cognitive psychology, Harvard; B.S. neuroscience, Duke
    easter egg: Loves salsa dancing and cooking (but mostly eating)

  • Marieme Fall

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development and Health
    Experience: MSI Reproductive Choices; ONG RAES; London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine; Child Frontiers; Precision Global Health
    Education: M.P.H., UWE Bristol; B.B.A., Heriot-Watt
    easter egg: Loves stretching and aerobic exercises

  • Michael Herman

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Microsoft (cloud adoption, CRM); clinical social work
    Education: B.S. applied economics & management, Cornell; M.S.W., Yeshiva
    easter egg: Cycles around Manhattan and writes poetry

  • Miranda Allegar

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training; Princeton Pace Center for Civic Engagement
    Education: B.A. public & international affairs, Princeton
    easter egg: Hunting for the perfect latte and baking as often as she can

  • Nick O'Donnell

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Research Assistant, Center for Decision Research
    Education: B.A. psychology & public policy, University of Chicago
    easter egg: Loves to chef up new recipes and cheer for the Lakers

  • Nicole Russo

    Associate Managing Director

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    Focus: Economic Justice and Health
    Experience: Public service innovation, program evaluation, health systems
    Education: M.P.A., Princeton; B.A., Wake Forest
    easter egg: Lover of tiny homes and clever interiors

  • Nikolas Silva

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Justice systems consulting in Colombia; healthcare burnout research in Argentina
    Education: M.A. behavioral & decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
    easter egg: Has lived in eight+ countries; described as a walking podcast with no unifying theme

  • Pema Dorji

    Senior Staff Accountant

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    Focus: Finance
    Experience: Public and nonprofit sectors accounting
    Education: B.A. computer information systems, Baruch College; B.A. accounting, Queens College
    easter egg: Family speaks six languages all jumbled together when not at work

  • Rachel Ryley

    Research & Evaluation Lead

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    Focus: (Un)warranted
    Experience: Philadelphia Police Department Consent Decree Unit; University of Pennsylvania Criminology Department; AmeriCorps
    Education: Ph.D,. University of Pennsylvania
    easter egg: Enjoys working in her garden and riding her bike

  • Rachel Taylor

    Interim Executive Director

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    Focus: Leadership
    Experience: Higher ed program director, visiting professor, and senior administrator
    Education: J.D., Georgetown; B.A. Colgate
    easter egg: Dedicated thrifter, baker, and mom

  • Rebecca Magnan

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Neuroscience communications and political organizing around chronic pain conditions
    Education: B.A. policy analysis & biology, Pomona
    easter egg: Passionate about silversmithing, the beach, and behaviorally informed spaces and events

  • Sara Flanagan

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development and Health
    Experience: Community engagement and research translation, Columbia; knowledge management, UNICEF Bangladesh
    Education: Dr.P.H., CUNY School of Public Health; M.P.H., Columbia; B.A., University of Pennsylvania
    easter egg: Adds craisins to all meals

  • Sarah Welch

    Managing Director

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    Focus: Civil Society
    Experience: Ecological designer, climate, behavior, and philanthropy
    Education: M.B.A. & M.E.M., Yale; B.A. environmental science & public policy, Harvard
    easter egg: Would take cheese over cake any day

  • Savannah Diaz

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice and Postsecondary Education
    Experience: Workforce development, public service innovation, health systems
    Education: M.P.H., New York University; B.S. microbiology, University of Kansas
    easter egg: CrossFit devotee and trinket hunter at markets around New York

  • Scott Lensing

    Principal Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Economic Justice
    Experience: Public services and communications design, social enterprise strategy and operations
    Education: M.B.A., Yale; B.A., Georgetown
    easter egg: Salted butter and bakery bon vivant; moonlight runner

  • Selamawit Mersha

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Health, Global Development, and Civil Society
    Experience: Program Development and Quality, Save the Children; Program Coordinator, Youth Network of Sustainable Development, Project Facilitator, FAWE-Ethiopia
    Education: M.S.W. and B.A., Addis Ababa University
    easter egg: Enjoys taking long walks and loves cats

  • Shannon McAuliffe

    National Director of Implementation, (Un)warranted

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    Focus: (Un)warranted
    Experience: Public defender, in California and Massachusetts; Director, Roca Boston
    Education: M.P.A., Harvard; J.D., Suffolk; B.A., University of San Diego
    easter egg: Lawyer for anyone who needs help and loves all cats

  • Stacy Royster

    Grant Administrator

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    Focus: Finance
    Experience: 10+ years in nonprofit and academic sectors
    Education: B.A. politics & human rights, Marymount Manhattan
    easter egg: Hikes with her dog Marley; dedicated plant parent

  • Stephanie Sanchez

    People Operations Manager

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    Focus: People Operations
    Experience: Operations & recruitment, Zeta Charter Schools
    Education: B.A. communications, SUNY-New Paltz
    easter egg: Native New Yorker who loves learning about the stock market and traveling the world

  • Tahan Menon

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: For-profit and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. and India
    Education: M.A. social sciences, University of Chicago; B.A. economics & political science, Randolph
    easter egg: Often found in a ceramics studio, running by Lake Michigan, or playing soccer

  • Tom Tasche

    Managing Director

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    Focus: Learning & Innovation
    Experience: Policy Advisor, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Desk Economist, U.S. Treasury
    Education: M.P.A. economics & policy and B.A. public & international affairs, Princeton
    easter egg: Avid sender and receiver of postcards

  • Vivien Caetano

    Associate Managing Director

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: 10+ years developing behavioral interventions and building partner capacity in nonprofits, government, financial health, climate, and public health
    Education: B.A. economics, Brown
    easter egg: Often dancing, including teaching partner dance

  • Wen Wen Teh

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development
    Experience: Senior Research Associate, J-PAL North America
    Education: M.A. international & development economics, Yale; B.S. neuroscience & economics, Johns Hopkins
    easter egg: Unofficial Malaysian food critic; can be found mid-craft, on a run, or knitting outdoors

  • Yutika Diwadkar Mucherla

    Associate Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Financial Health
    Experience: Community-based cancer care organization in India; St. David's Foundation
    Education: M.P.H., University of Texas; B.A., UT Austin
    easter egg: Enjoys experimenting with new baking recipes

  • Zainab Amjad

    Senior Behavioral Designer

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    Focus: Global Development
    Experience: IDinsight; Delivery Associates with governments in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone
    Education: M.P.A., Princeton; B.A., Mount Holyoke
    easter egg: Finds rhyme in unlikely places

Board

Our Board

  • Antoinette Schoar

    Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management

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    Experience: Co-founder and Scientific Director, ideas42
    Honors: Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, 2009; Journal of Finance Brattle Prize for “The Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity,” 2003
    Education: Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago; B.A., University of Cologne

  • English Sall

    Co-founder and CEO, Cymantix

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    Experience: Co-founder, Impact Thread; Co-director, Aspen Institute’s Impact Careers Initiative; Post-doctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health; Adjunct faculty, Meredith College
    Civic & Board Roles: Board member, CARE USA, The END Fund, African Philanthropy Forum
    Education: Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology, North Carolina State University

  • George Overholser

    CEO, SquadLockerBoard

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    Experience: CEO, SquadLocker; Co-founder, Third Sector Capital Partners; Founder NFF Capital Partners; Senior leader, Capital One founding team
    Education: B.A., Harvard University; M.B.A., Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  • Larry Kantor

    Operating Partner, Atlas Merchant Capital

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    Experience: Managing Director and Head of Global Research, Barclays; Chief Economist for Europe and Global Head of Foreign Exchange Strategy, JP Morgan; Economist, Federal Reserve Board.
    Civic & Board Roles: Board member, Council for Economic Education and EMPath.
    Education: Ph.D. Economics, Ohio State University; B.A., Rutgers University

  • Nozipho Mbanjwa-Tshabalala

    CEO, Conversation Strategists

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    Experience: The Presidency in South Africa; Umiambo Foundation; Tata Africa; Journalist, CNBC Africa
    Civic & Board Roles: Chairperson Designate, LRMG Group; Board member, Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa; Advisory Council, BeyGOOD Global Citizen Fellowship
    Education: M.Phil., Stellenbosch Business School; M.A., SOAS University of London; B.A., University of Pretoria

  • Stacey Hightower

    CEO, Omnicom Specialty Marketing Group

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    Experience: Founding Partner, ONE HUNDRED; Director, AlixPartners and Loughlin Meghi & Company
    Civic & Board Roles: Member, Executive Leadership Council; Board member, City Music Cleveland; Peace Corps volunteer, Kenya
    Education: B.A., Washington University; M.B.A., Yale School of Management

  • Susan Sobbott

    Senior Advisor, Ogilvy Consulting

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    Experience: President, Global Commercial Services, American Express
    Civic & Board Roles: Board member, WEX; Trustee, University of Virginia Darden School of Business; Member, The Women's Forum; Advisory Board member, Women's Capital Venture Fund.
    Education: M.B.A., University of Virginia Darden School of Business; B.A., Georgetown University

Advisors

Advisors

  • Antoinette Schoar

    Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Anuj Shah

    Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Eldar Shafir

    Professor of Behavioral Science and Public Policy, Princeton

  • Elizabeth Levy Paluck

    Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton

  • George Akerlof

    University Professor, Georgetown

  • Hawa Talla

    Country Director, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Senegal

  • Hunt Allcott

    Scientific Director, ideas42; Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

  • Jens Ludwig

    Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago and Director of University of Chicago Crime Lab

  • Katherine Baicker

    Scientific Director, ideas42; Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

  • Manuel Adelino

    Associate Professor of Finance, Duke Fuqua School of Business

  • Marie Ba

    Director, Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit

  • Matt Ryan

    Founder, Ryan+Partners; CEO, Roth Ryan Hayes

  • Melissa L. Bradley

    Professor of Practice, Georgetown McDonough; Managing Partner, 1863 Ventures

  • Nigel Morris

    Co-founder and Managing Partner, QED Investors

  • Olufunke Fasawe

    Senior Director of Primary Health Care, Clinton Health Access Initiative

  • Peter R. Orszag

    CEO of Financial Advisory, Lazard

  • Priya Nanda

    Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India

  • Rhoda Wanyenze

    Professor and Dean, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda

  • Richard H. Thaler

    Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Sanam Roder-DeWan

    Senior Health Specialist, World Bank; practicing family physician

  • Sean Kline

    Advisor, ideas42 Global Development portfolio

  • Sendhil Mullainathan

    Roman Family University Professor, University of Chicago Booth

  • Todd Rogers

    Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

  • Wambui Gachiengo Nyabero

    Chief Technology Officer, Villgro Africa

  • Paul Brest

    Former Dean and Professor Emeritus, Stanford Law School and former President, Hewlett Foundation

  • Josh Wright

    Former Executive Director, ideas42

  • William Congdon

    Senior Fellow, Urban Institute

Affiliates

Affiliates

  • Abigail Sussman

    Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Adam S. Levine

    Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University

  • Alison Buttenheim

    Assistant Professor of Nursing and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania

  • Anandi Mani

    Professor of Behavioural Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

  • Angela Duckworth

    Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania; founder, Duckworth Lab

  • Annamaria Lusardi

    Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Director, Financial Freedom Initiative

  • Ariel Kalil

    Professor, University of Chicago Harris; Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy

  • Ashley Whillans

    Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

  • Aurélie Ouss

    Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania

  • Avni Shah

    Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto Scarborough/Rotman

  • Banny Bannerjee

    Founder and Director, Stanford ChangeLabs

  • Baruch Fischhoff

    Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Ben Castleman

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, University of Virginia

  • Brian S. Lowery

    Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • Bridget Long

    Dean and Saris Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Brigitte Madrian

    Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Harvard Kennedy School

  • Cass Sunstein

    Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

  • Chris Hulleman

    Research Associate Professor, University of Virginia Curry School; Director, Motivate Lab

  • Christine Jolls

    Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor, Yale Law School; Director, NBER Law and Economics Program

  • Christopher Bryan

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Courtney McCluney

    Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations

  • Craig Fox

    Professor of Policy and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management

  • Crystal Hall

    Associate Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

  • Damon Jones

    Associate Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

  • Daniel Benjamin

    Professor of Economics (Research), University of Southern California Center for Economic and Social Research

  • David I. Laibson

    Professor of Economics, Harvard; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

  • Dean Karlan

    Professor of Economics, Yale; President, Innovations for Poverty Action

  • Dean Yang

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

  • Deborah Prentice

    Provost and Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton

  • Derek Koehler

    Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo

  • Devin Pope

    Professor of Behavioral Science and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Dilip Soman

    Corus Professor of Strategy and Professor of Marketing, Rotman School, University of Toronto

  • Donald Redelmeier

    Canada Research Chair in Medical Decision Sciences; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

  • Elinor Amit

    Assistant Professor, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University and Brown University

  • Elizabeth Linos

    Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

  • Elke U. Weber

    Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton

  • Eric Johnson

    Norman Eig Chair of Business and Director, Center for Decision Sciences, Columbia Business School

  • Eugene M. Caruso

    Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Frank Schilbach

    Gary Loveman Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT

  • Frederick Wherry

    Townsend Martin Professor of Sociology, Princeton; Director, Dignity and Debt Network

  • Gabrielle Adams

    Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia

  • Geoff Cohen

    Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stanford

  • George Loewenstein

    Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon

  • Hal Hershfield

    Associate Professor of Marketing, UCLA Anderson School of Management

  • Heather Caruso

    Assistant Dean of EDI and Adjunct Professor of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management

  • Heather Schofield

    Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton Business School

  • James Choi

    Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

  • James Habyarimana

    Provost Distinguished Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

  • Janice Bowie

    Bloomberg Centennial Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Jann Spiess

    Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • Jennifer A. Richeson

    Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale; MacArthur Fellow; Guggenheim Fellow

  • Johannes Haushofer

    Researcher, neurobiology, behavioral economics, and development economics; Founder, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

  • Jonathan Zinman

    Professor of Economics, Dartmouth; Academic Lead, IPA Global Financial Inclusion Initiative

  • Justin Sydnor

    Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance, Wisconsin School of Business

  • Justine Burns

    Associate Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town

  • Katherine Milkman

    Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  • Leaf Van Boven

    Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Mahzarin Banaji

    Professor of Psychology, Harvard

  • Mara Mather

    Associate Professor of Gerontology and Psychology, University of Southern California

  • Margaret McConnell

    Associate Professor of Global Health Economics, Harvard School of Public Health

  • Marieke Huysentruyt

    Assistant Professor of Strategy, HEC Paris

  • Mario Macis

    Associate Professor of Economics and Management, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

  • Max Bazerman

    Straus Professor, Harvard Business School

  • Michael D. Grubb

    Associate Professor of Economics, Boston College

  • Michael Luca

    Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor, Harvard Business School

  • Michael Norton

    Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

  • Mitesh Patel

    Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business; Director, Penn Medicine Nudge Unit

  • Modupe Akinola

    Associate Professor of Management and Director, Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School

  • Nava Ashraf

    Professor of Economics and Research Director, Marshall Institute, London School of Economics

  • Neil Lewis, Jr.

    Assistant Professor, Cornell and Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Nicholas Epley

    Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Nidhi Agrawal

    Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor, University of Washington Foster School of Business

  • Paul Dolan

    Professor of Behavioural Science, London School of Economics; Director, Executive MSc Behavioural Science

  • Paul Ferraro

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Engineering, Johns Hopkins

  • Paul J. Zak

    Founding Director, Center for Neuroeconomics Studies; Professor of Economics, Psychology, and Management, Claremont Graduate University

  • Paul Slovic

    President, Decision Research; Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

  • Philip Oreopoulos

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

  • Phoebe Ellsworth

    Frank Murphy Distinguished University Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Michigan

  • Rajiv Vaidyanathan

    Professor of Marketing, University of Minnesota Duluth; Executive Director, Association for Consumer Research

  • Rebecca Ratner

    Dean's Professor of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park

  • Renée Richardson Gosline

    Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan; Principal Research Scientist, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

  • Robert H. Frank

    Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell Johnson

  • Rodrigo Canales

    Yale School of Medicine faculty

  • Saad Omer

    William H. Foege Professor of Global Health, Epidemiology & Pediatrics, Emory University

  • Sim Sitkin

    Professor of Management and Director, Behavioral Science and Policy Center, Duke University

  • Stacey Sinclair

    Professor of Psychology and African American Studies, Princeton University

  • Stefano DellaVigna

    Professor of Economics, Uniersity of California, Berkeley; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

  • Susan Athey

    Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • Susan T. Fiske

    Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton

  • Suzanne B. Shu

    Associate Professor of Marketing, University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management

  • Tatiana Homonoff

    Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, New York University Wagner School of Public Service

  • Terrance Odean

    Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance, UC Haas

  • Thomas Gilovich

    Professor of Psychology, Cornell; co-director, Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research

  • Uri Gneezy

    Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics, University of California, San Diego Rady School of Management

  • Wendy Wood

    Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California

  • Ziad Obermeyer

    Acting Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

  • Zoë Chance

    Marketing professor, Yale School of Management

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