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Announcements

The end of March marks the completion of the first EA NYC Rings cycle! Rings are groups of EAs who come together to work on a shared project, and we'll be hosting a symposium in which the Ring participants can showcase their work to the broader community! Learn more about the initiative here, and mark your calendars for March 30th to see what this batch of Ringers have been working on!

Also, make sure to register for EA Global: Reconnect, a networking event for people who have taken significant action based on the principles of effective altruism! The networking weekend takes place March 20-21, and applications close March 17th.

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!

3/11 - 7pm: Discussion: how to talk about Effective Altruism
3/16 - 7pm: Virtual social on Icebreaker
3/23 - 6pm: Faunalytics: Research For Effective Animal Advocacy
3/29 - 7pm: Reading Group discussion: Universal Basic Income
3/30 - 7pm: EA NYC Rings Symposium

If you miss any of our speaker events, we record as many of them as possible to put on our YouTube channel! Check out some of our latest talks like the Democracy Policy Network, and our community lightning talks.

High-Impact Opportunities

Vox is hiring for multiple high-impact positions, including a podcast host on policy and a producer for their science podcast!

The Nuclear Threat Initiative is looking for paid, remote Summer Interns to work on Global Biological Policy and Programs, Comms, Global Nuclear Policy Program, Materials Risk Management and more. They're accepting applications until March 8th. Ploughshare Funds, another nuclear policy organization, is hiring a one-year Policy Fellow, with applications open until March 15th.

Giving What We Can is hiring a Developer/Technical Product Manager. The Center for Effective Altruism is also hiring for a Full Stack Engineer and a Finance and Data Lead. All three positions are open until March 31st.

Effective Altruism Funds — which makes grants of up to $250,000 for projects in a variety of cause areas, is accepting applications until March 7th for their Animal Welfare, Longtermism, and EA Infrastructure funds.

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

Aaron just finished Infinite Jest, which is 60 hours long on Audible (most books are ~10 hours), so he's been converted into David Foster Wallace superfan! In the wake of Rush Limbaugh's recent passing, you can read this related story DFW wrote for the Atlantic back in 2005. It's shockingly relevant to modern media.

Arushi is excited to learn about the possibility of COVID vaccine tech leading to a vaccine for malaria! She also appreciated this piece on messaging mistakes we've made during the pandemic from Zeynep Tufecki, who's been a really clear voice throughout the pandemic and was recently interviewed by Ezra Klein. She's also been reading a TON of policy news for her brand new, EA-aligned US Policy newsletter that launches tomorrow! Sign up to get the first edition of HIPR in your inbox Wednesday morning ☺

Reading Group

This month, we're trying something a bit different! We'll each be reading different papers and articles related to the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) and comparing our findings and feelings during the discussion! Check the #reading-group in the EA NYC Slack to see the list of readings, choose 1 among them, and come prepared to talk about it in the meetup on March 29th!

Community Spotlight: Michael Sadowsky

"I first got into utilitarianism over a decade ago. I read Peter Singer’s pond analogy, decided the logic was sound and decided to change how I live my life. It took me a few years from that to find the EA community, but I’m ecstatic that I did. The community of like minded and kind hearted people, both in EA NYC and the broader EA community, has given me friendship and helped me realize how my skillsets and political knowledge can do the most good.

I work in Democratic data analytics where I test messages, predict elections, and allocate resources to elect Democrats. But, through EA, I’ve learned how I can bring my lessons from working in politics to advance effective causes. I’m in the midst of efforts to run EA ballot measures, advocate for government funding to high impact areas, and help fellow EAs find high impact careers in politics. I always love chatting with folks interested in how EAs can be involved in and influence politics."

Quotes We Love

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
- the Dalai Lama

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