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Allison Zelkowitz

Founder and Director, Center for Utilizing Behavioral Insights for Children (CUBIC)
Academia & Civil society
Kenya

About Allison

Allison Zelkowitz is the founder and director of CUBIC – the Center for Utilizing Behavioral Insights for Children. Launched by Save the Children International in April 2020, CUBIC is the world’s first applied behavioral science team focusing specifically on the most marginalized children’s rights and welfare. Allison has been working overseas in international aid and development for over 19 years, in Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Lebanon, Uganda, and she is now based in Kenya. Allison holds a Master’s of Pacific and International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego, where she specialized in International Development, Nonprofit Management, and Southeast Asia.  She is fluent in Indonesian.  Allison graduated from Bowdoin College with a Bachelor’s degree in English and Theater. She loves being a mum to her two kids, skydiving, and jogging very slowly.

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Stories by Allison

  • Childhood & Development

Save the Children introduces CUBIC

The first behavioural science team focused on marginalised children’s rights and welfare

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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