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JENNIFER JACQUET is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU and affiliated faculty in the Center for Data Science and the Stern School of Business. She is also deputy director of NYU's Center for Environmental and Animal Protection. Her research focuses on large-scale cooperation dilemmas, especially overfishing, wildlife trafficking, and climate change, and policy options for addressing them. She is the author of IS SHAME NECESSARY? (Pantheon, 2015) -- about the evolution, function, and future of the use of social disapproval in a globalized, digitized world. She is the recipient of a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship and a 2016 Pew fellowship in marine conservation.