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Announcements

We’re launching season 2 of EA NYC Rings!

Rings are small groups of EA NYC members who team up and work together for 4 months on a shared project. The initiative will run from May to August, and the goal is for each Ring to produce a deliverable by the end of the program and share their results with the EA NYC community! Whether you’re working on an idea of your own and looking for additional teammates, interested in starting a new project, or just happy to help with someone else’s project, we want to hear from you! Register here ASAP!

Learn more about EA NYC Rings

Arushi is launching an EA group house in Bushwick, along with other members of the community! We’re aiming to build a community based on our shared commitment to helping others as effectively as possible. We’re also planning to have a lot of fun together! Tentative plans are to have weekly group dinners, host EA NYC events, and parties in the (huge) backyard. We’re also open-minded to ideas you might have for social events, how to improve the space, and house projects. If this sounds interesting to you, please check out further details and apply ASAP!

Upcoming Events

To keep up to date on our upcoming events, check out our calendar on Facebook or Meetup, or add us to your Google Calendar!

5/08 - 2:30pm: IRL social at Nellie's Lawn in Prospect Park
5/11 - 12pm: Jack Harley - Longevity as an EA Cause Area
5/18 - 7pm: Virtual social on Icebreaker
5/22 - 2:30pm: in-person social (location TBD, might move to 5/29)
5/25 - 7pm: Everyday philanthropist: Help us give away $1500+!
5/31 - 7pm: Reading Group: Winners Take All

If you miss any of our speaker events, we record as many of them as possible to put on our YouTube channel!

High-Impact Opportunities

Momentum, a donation platform raising money for highly-effective charities, is hiring for a Senior Backend Engineer and a Fullstack Software Engineer, and more opportunities coming up soon.

Counterfactual Ventures, an alternative proteins startup incubator, is hiring a Manager of Talent Engagement & Operations and a Science and Tech Associate.

Rethink Priorities is hiring a Research Project and Hiring Manager, and an Exec Director for the new Insect Welfare Project.

Check out 120+ more jobs and internships, across a variety of cause areas, on our job board! And if you know of an impactful opportunity that we've missed on our board, please share it with us!

See the EA NYC Job Board

On Our Minds

If you didn't already know it, Aaron was in a pirate a cappella crew in college where he would drink rum and sing sea shanties. He was also raised orthodox Jewish as a kid. The newest Extra History series somehow captures both of those worlds!

Arushi has been reading about vaccines all day long - not just the COVID-19 vaccine, but the success of the new malaria vaccine, new breakthroughs in an HIV vaccine, and the possibility of a universal coronavirus vaccine! (She's still also reading a bunch about COVID-19 vaccines).

Reading Group

This month, we'll be reading Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas, about the failures / hypocrisies of philanthropy - super relevant for us aspiring philanthropists in EA NYC!

Check the #reading-group in the EA NYC Slack to discuss the book in advance of our upcoming meetup on May 31st!

Community Spotlight: Garrison Lovely

"When I first learned about EA in early 2017, it felt like I found the words, framework, and community for intuitions I had held my whole life. I slowly reoriented my life around EA, which led me to becoming a co-organizer of EA NYC and working in fundraising technology at GiveDirectly. I also do freelance journalism on the criminal legal system, drugs, and media and host a podcast called the The Most Interesting People I Know.

I’m also very excited to be starting an EA group house in Bushwick with Arushi next month (see the form for details on applying!). We’re aiming to build a community based on our shared commitment to helping others as effectively as possible. We’re also planning to have a lot of fun together! Tentative plans are to have weekly group dinners, host EA NYC events, and parties in the (huge!) backyard. We’re open-minded to ideas you might have for social events, how to improve the space, and house projects."

Quotes We Love

"We should never be afraid of inconveniencing the people who love us."
- Vivek Murthy

As always, thank you for your time and attention - we love you!

Yours,
A&A

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