Cecilia Dones is a data & analytics practitioner-academic, international speaker, and author focused on the intersection of technology, data, and trust.

She has worked at several Fortune 500 companies and taught at Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, and U. Penn Wharton.

Cecilia has helped businesses tell stories about people using analytics. She studies how technology mediates the lived experience for individuals and brands. Cecilia is also the author of Authentic Interactions, a weekly newsletter where she posts her interdisciplinary musings related to trust.

Cecilia earned her Bachelor’s in Marketing and International Business from NYU Stern School of Business where she also minored in Psychology and East Asian Studies. She also earned her Master’s in Statistics from Columbia University and is currently finishing her doctoral studies focused on Interpersonal Relationships within Immersive Digital Environments and its impacts on trust.