What inspired you to co-found LEEP? Was there a specific event or realization that led you to focus on lead exposure?
Effective Altruism Influence:
How have EA principles influenced the strategies and tactics of LEEP?
What lessons or frameworks from the EA community were particularly useful or challenging when applied to the real-world scenarios faced by LEEP?
Charity Entrepreneurship
How was the incubation process at Charity Entrepreneurship like?
How did your partnership with Charity Entrepreneurship shape the foundation and direction of LEEP?
What would LEEP have looked like without the CE Program or what was the most valuable lesson you took away from it?
What were the key-factors that led to you being matched with Jack Rafferty as Co-Founders?
Impact:
What have been the most significant successes of LEEP to date?
Which of the steps of your approach (that can be seen on LEEP's projects page) turned out to be most difficult? Which happened to be surprisingly easy? Here the steps I'm referring to:
1. Stakeholder engagement: Develop our understanding of the local context, build partnerships, and begin collaborative conversations with government and industry stakeholders.
2. Conduct paint study: Determine whether and to what extent lead-based paints are available on the market. If paints are lead-free, end the project at this point.
3. Government outreach: Share our research with relevant government ministries and seek commitments for new regulation or enforcement of existing regulation. Provide support as needed, such as in drafting new laws.
4. Industry outreach: Provide technical assistance to manufacturers to enable them to switch to lead-free paint.
5. Conduct followup paint study: After regulations are newly implemented or enforced, carry out another study to ensure that lead-based paints have successfully been replaced. Provide further assistance to government and industry as necessary
Future Goals and Aspirations:
What is the long-term vision for LEEP, how do you see it evolving in the next 5-10 years?
Are you excited by the possibility of some day being able to announce "We did it, Lead Exposure is no longer a thing!" ?
Personal:
Do you feel a lot of weight on your shoulders or more of a sense of opportunity to do good?
Do you have trouble establishing a healthy work/life balance or find yourself thinking "If I spend some extra time reaching out to this or that person I could save so and so many kids from lead poisoning."?
And please tell her that for me LEEP is an inspiring example how much taking actions in a neglected area can achieve (that I constantly use when pitching EA here in Freiburg). I'm a huge fan!
Background and Motivation:
Effective Altruism Influence:
Charity Entrepreneurship
Impact:
Here the steps I'm referring to:
Future Goals and Aspirations:
Personal:
And please tell her that for me LEEP is an inspiring example how much taking actions in a neglected area can achieve (that I constantly use when pitching EA here in Freiburg).
I'm a huge fan!