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Dr. Maya Shankar

Cognitive Scientist and Podcast Creator @ A Slight Change of Plans

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and creator of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, previously named “Best Show of the Year” by Apple. She served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Obama White House where she founded and chaired the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. She was also appointed as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations. Maya has a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford.

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