Ali Felman is a Brooklyn-based People Operations professional and freelance writer who is obsessed with employee experience and cultures of growth. She is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Baruch College, where she is learning all she can about how research can inform organizational culture. At Baruch, she sits on the program's executive board, as the Learning and Development chair, and is involved in research exploring perceptions of automatability, gender, and employee attitudes. Ali earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Wesleyan University and spent the first years of her career teaching Middle School Language Arts. When she’s not working or studying, she is probably on a run with her dog, Ponyboy, or working on various mutual aid efforts in her neighborhood.