About MDRC
Alemañy is a design analyst in MDRC’s Center for Applied Behavioral Science (CABS), where he leads the graphic development of intervention materials informed by behavioral science. He specializes in using a user-centered approach to redesign program and agency communications. Alemañy has helped design and test behavioral science-based solutions on projects such as Encouraging Additional Summer Enrollment and Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self Sufficiency-Next Generation. He has also worked one-on-one with programs — helping them to use insights from behavioral science to strengthen their service delivery — as a part of technical assistance engagements such as the Health Profession and Opportunity Grant Behavioral Webinar Series and the Annie E. Casey Foundation Executive-Skills Coaching Pilot Technical Assistance project. Alemañy holds bachelor’s degrees in business administration and psychology from the University of North Florida.
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MDRC Publications
ReportMarch, 2018This compendium of written materials comes from the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project. The collection illustrates how specific concepts from behavioral science were used in different settings and formats by practitioners and program designers in child care, child support, and work-support programs.
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Other Publications
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Projects
The Center for Applied Behavioral Science ( CABS ) at MDRC is excited to launch the Applied Behavioral Coalition ( ABC ) project, which partners with nonprofit organizations that serve vulnerable and at-risk populations in the United States. ABC ’s goal is to build each organization’s foundation in behavioral science and human-centered design principles. Leaders, staff...
The Encouraging Additional Summer Enrollment ( EASE ) Project is a new initiative to improve community college persistence and completion in Ohio. The project will apply insights from behavioral science to design targeted messaging and financial incentives that encourage students to enroll in courses during the summer term.
In the U.S., higher education...
Rekha Balu, Caitlin Anzelone, Clinton Key, Mary Bambino, Barbara Condliffe, Rebecca Schwartz, Jared Smith, Margaret Hennessy, Xavier AlemañyPolicymakers and administrators are increasingly using evidence about human behavior to improve the design of social services. People — who often rely on intuition instead of reason, make inconsistent choices over time, and can be overloaded by information — are the clients who receive services, the staff who provide them, and the policymakers who create them....