Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
4:30 p.m.
5:45 p.m.
Program
• Welcome by Brent Christopher, President & CEO, Communities Foundation of Texas
• Remarks from Eldar Shafir, co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
• Interview with Krys Boyd, Host of Think, 90.1 KERA
Reception
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton
University, and co-founder and scientific director at ideas42, a social science R&D lab. He studies
decision-making, cognitive science, and behavioral economics.
His recent research has focused on decision-making in contexts of poverty and on the
application of behavioral research to policy. He is Past President of the Society for Judgment and
Decision Making, and was a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial
Capability. He has held several visiting positions, including at the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced
Studies, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and Di Tella University in Buenos Aires.
He has received several awards, most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was named one of Foreign Policy
Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013. He recently edited a book called The Behavioral Foundations of
Public Policy, (Princeton University Press), and has co-authored, with economist Sendhil Mullainathan, a book
called Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, (Henry Holt Times Books). He received his B.A. from Brown
University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Krys Boyd
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think
since 2006. Krys began her career along the U.S.-Mexico border, working simultaneously at radio
and television stations as a reporter, anchor and news director. A graduate of TCU, Krys returned
to North Texas in 1999 to serve as News Director for Broadcast.com, and later Senior Producer of
Broadcast News at Yahoo.
Krys joined KERA in 2001, hosting the nightly radio talk show Conversations. Later, she wrote
and produced documentary and educational television programs, including the critically-acclaimed,
nationally-broadcast JFK: Breaking the News in 2003, and served as producer and co-host of the Emmy Awardwinning public affairs program On the Record. Think was named “Best Radio Talk Show” of Dallas by the Dallas
Observer in 2009, and Krys was declared “Best Broadcaster for Radio in Dallas” by D Magazine in 2010, and
won the PRNDI award for best call-in program in 2012. Krys and her husband, Matt, live in Dallas and have four
children.
Host Committee
Molly Bogen, The Senior Source
Michael Fleisher, Jewish Family Services
Bill Hall, Dallas Habitat for Humanity
Lisa Hembry, Literacy Instruction for Texas (LIFT)
Larry James, CitySquare
Jennifer Ware, YWCA of Dallas
Kimberly Williams, Interfaith Housing Coalition
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