Check the listings on our job board (we now have over 100 job opportunities listed! 🎉) and if you know of an impactful opportunity that we've missed on our board, please share it with us!
Some opportunities to highlight here:
The Rockefeller Foundation is hiring grad students for Summer Associate positions on a number of their programs, including their Food Initiative, Innovative Finance, and Power & Climate (bringing renewable energy to the world’s poorest populations). The Marshall Project is hiring paid summer journalism interns to write about criminal justice reform. It's geared towards folks who are in college, so send this to your young EA friends!
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For November, we read Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raeworth, which we will be discussing tonight! We will also be deciding our book for December during the meeting tonight! Click on this cute little bookworm to join the group if you haven't already, and join us tonight if you can (read this summary of the book to get up to speed)!
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Arushi is listening to a new podcast called Reimagining the Internet from The Institute for Public Digital Infrastructure at UMass of Amherst. Professor Ethan Zuckerman interviews a series of scholars, activists, and technologists about what's wrong with social media, and how to fix it. The different viewpoints that each guest brings is refreshing to hear and there were a lot of interesting approaches and projects mentioned that we hadn't heard of before! Aaron has been reading Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde, and thinking about the nature of systemic change from within and revolutionary change from without. Lorde writes that "the master's tools will never be used to dismantle the master's house," which is a chilling indictment and cynical perspective on structural change. I'd be so interested to see an EA-inspired project that evaluates historical trends to compare how often change really has occurred from "the inside" vs. "the outside" and evaluate the efficacy of both.
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Meet Rachel! "I became interested in effective altruism when I moved to Philadelphia in 2013 and started having conversations with Harish Sethu, a true hero in my eyes, of the Counting Animals blog. I joined the Philly EA community, moved to DC, was a co-leader of the DC EA community, and about four years ago, moved to NYC and fell in love with the NYC EA community. I currently work in government and am eager to see more EAs enter the world of policy and politics to make big changes for humans and non-humans alike."
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“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” - Caterina Fake
Yours until EA becomes so mainstream that we aren't necessary, A&A
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