Staci Gusakova is former Ithaka S+R intern who researched institutional borrowing alongside James Ward. Currently, Staci works as a User Experience Research Associate at Google and conducts mixed methods research to make Google Search Ads more useful and trustworthy. Staci holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies. During her PhD, she researched what factors help people maintain high quality relationships over time, with a specific focus on issues that disproportionately affect gender, racial, and sexual minorities.