Dr. Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves is a senior behavioral researcher in the field of Psychology and decision-making. She earned her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Kentucky in 2011 with a concentration in animal behavior and comparative cognition. She has been conducting research for the past 20 years on both human and non-human animal species, and has published over 30 papers in her field.

Most recently, she has been working on helping to improve health and financial outcomes of various populations, and was a co-developer of the NOVA financial lab games to teach financial literacy and wellbeing to adolescents and young adults.

She is currently a Senior Director for the Institute of Consumer Money Management and the Financial Literacy Program Coordinator for the Young Enterprising Women events.