Logan Ury

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Logan Ury (born 1987 or 1988) [1] is an American behavior expert, author, and dating coach who may be best known for her book How to Not Die Alone (Simon & Schuster, 2021).

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Biography

Early life

Logan Ury was raised in Boca Raton, Florida. [1] She has as a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University. [2] [1]

Career

Ury worked at Google as the co-head of the behavioral economics lab. [3] [4] She was a 2018 TED resident. [5]

She published her first book, How to Not Die Alone (Simon & Schuster), in 2021. [6]

Ury is the director of relationship science at Hinge, a dating app. [2] [7] [8]

She has written for The Gottman Institute [9] and Men's Health. [10] She provides dating coaching on the podcast This Is Dating. [11] [12] Ury has appeared on All Things Considered [13] and Millennial Love Podcast. [14] She is also the dating coach for the single participants on the 2024 Netflix docuseries The Later Daters. [15]

Personal life

Ury married a former Harvard classmate, Scott, in June 2020. [1] [3] She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. [16] Ury is Jewish. [17]

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