Discuss impactful career planning with fellow community members! Special guest Vaidehi Agarwalla will help frame the conversation based on her experiences working at EA and non-EA organizations and helping to troubleshoot the EA talent ecosystem.
Vaidehi will give a quick overview of some common failure modes in the EA careers landscape and is happy to answer additional questions before/throughout the group discussion. If you'd like to (optionally) prepare before the event, check out this post from Vaidehi!
Weather permitting, this event will also take place outside! We'll provide picnic blankets and plant-based snacks to help make the most of the discussion.
Guests are welcome to bring additional vegan snacks/dishes at their discretion - though, we adhere to a strictly vegan food policy at all of our events! (If you're not sure if something is vegan, please don't feel obligated to find anything - we will have more than enough tasty snacks for everyone!)
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Vaidehi is a Sr. Product Manager at Momentum, a platform that helps donors fund and connect with nonprofits. In her free time, Vaidehi also thinks about how to get money and talent directed towards important and neglected projects; toward that end, she founded Pineapple Ops to help provide career infrastructure for people working in biosecurity, operations, and more.
Vaidehi has been involved in the effective altruism community since 2018 with a focus on careers advice and infrastructure. She has a background in marketing, operations, and recruiting, has worked with a boutique consulting firm, and has interned with Charity Entrepreneurship. Vaidehi is originally from Singapore and studied sociology and statistics at Haverford College.
Please register here to attend (required) - https://bit.ly/3IJoZ6I
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For those new to effective altruism, here are a couple of good introductions. In short, EA is about using evidence to carefully analyze how, given limited resources, we can help others the *most*.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48VAQtGmfWY