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Alissa Dubnicki is an economist on the Behavioral Economics Team at Google, where she applies her expertise to understand complex analytical problems that go beyond textbook solutions. With a passion for diving deep into data, Alissa enjoys tackling causal inference challenges where traditional methods fall short. Before joining Google, Alissa worked as a litigation consultant at Keystone Strategy and Analysis Group, specializing in competition, trade secret, and marketing cases. Alissa earned her PhD in Economics from Syracuse University, following her undergraduate studies at Princeton University (go tigers!). Outside of her professional life, Alissa is an avid hiker and skier, and enjoys reading — new fiction recommendations welcome.

Casey K. Gardiner is an applied psychologist. She holds an A.B. in psychology from Dartmouth and a dual PhD in neuroscience and social psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her academic research on reward processing, motivation, and behavior change was supported by an NSF GRF as well as both institutional and external grant funding. Following graduate training, she transitioned to the private sector, working as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and then as an executive at a venture-backed healthtech startup. She is presently a behavioral economist at Google. Across both scholarly and industry settings, she has applied scientific expertise, analytical rigor, and practical problem-solving to address a breadth of critical challenges that we all face in work and life, including: health behavior change, organizational leadership, motivation, talent management, decision-making, mental health, and public health.