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Adaptation of Maya’s Juilliard Commencement Speech

I was invited to speak at the Juilliard pre college graduation ceremony in 2023 and the Washington Post adapted it into an Op-Ed. Honor of a lifetime to speak at a school that played such a formative role in my development.

 

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Good Behavior

An unusual team of White House scientists works through the final days of the Obama Administration.

By Sarah Stillman
Published in the print edition of the January 23, 2017 issue.

 

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Public Policies, Made to Fit People

By Richard H. Thaler
August 24, 2013


 

Making Government Logical

By Cass Sunstein
September 19, 2015

 
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A Better Government, One Tweak at a Time

By Justin Wolfers
September 25, 2015

 
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Behaviorists Show the U.S. How to Improve Government Operations

By Binyamin Appelbaum
September 29, 2015

 

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The White House gets into the Nudge Business

Episode 265

By Stephen J. Dubner | Produced by Christopher Werth
November 2, 2016

 

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Maya Shankar: From Juilliard To The White House

December 29, 2015

 

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There’s A Virtuoso At The White House And The Work She’s Doing Is Fascinating

By Nico Pitney
November 10, 2015

 

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Obama's Nudge Brigade: White House Embraces Behavioral Sciences To Improve Government

Donald Marron Contributor
September 16, 2015