Maya Shankar Biography

Maya Shankar is a distinguished cognitive scientist known for hosting and producing the award-winning podcast A Slight Change of Plans, which Apple named the Best Show of 2021. Her podcast explores transformative life events from a cognitive science perspective, drawing on her own experiences, including a career-ending injury as a young violinist trained at Juilliard under Itzhak Perlman.

In addition to her achievements in media, Maya served as a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and chaired the White House Behavioral Science Team. Her work extended internationally as she became the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon. Maya holds a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford, a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a B.A. from Yale.

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