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Announcements

The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) is organizing a speaker series this summer for folks who are interested in US policy! In their words: "Many people in our community recognize the value of policy work, but it is often hard to access information about how to get your foot in the policy door or what working in “policy” even means in practice. This speaker series is intended to be useful for people who are looking to learn more about which types of US policy jobs are good fits for them and what steps they can take to prepare for these jobs. More than a dozen speakers will share their policy career experiences and provide advice for those seeking to enter the field."

You can sign up for the speaker series using this link!

Additionally, if you're interested in law and how lawyers can use their time and talent to do the most good, the Legal Priorities Project is hosting a bunch of online talks!

WANBAM connects and supports a global network of women, trans people of any gender, and non-binary people interested in Effective Altruism through mentorship. They are accepting Expressions of Interest for mentees! The application round is open until the 30th of July.

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 📅

July 8th - 6pm - Hangout in Central Park!
July 12th - 7pm - Social @ The Factory in Murray Hill
July 26th - 7pm - Reading Group: The Scout Mindset
We will also be having an exciting speaker join us the week of the 19th - check our events pages for more details soon!

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

As we mentioned in our last newsletter, we're transitioning back into in-person events and we'd love some help finding affordable event spaces! If you happen to know any venues (perhaps office space you have access to?) that would be available on weekday evenings and not too expensive, we'd love to hear about it! You can respond to this email or hit us up at info@effectivealtruism.nyc ✉

High-Impact Opportunities

Rethink Priorities is looking to hire for multiple positions, such as a researcher for their survey team and an operations associate, and their July 4th deadline is approaching quickly! (Well, it's not actually approaching any quicker than at the rate of one second per second, but still! Get on that!)

Counterfactual Ventures is recruiting folks who want to build startups making an impact against animal farming (whether through alt proteins or something else)! Apply or send this to your entrepreneurial friends!

Anthropic is a new organization dedicated to working on AI Safety and they are offering a 6-12 month residency program for people who want to transfer into machine learning research. They're also hiring for multiple other roles.

Founders Pledge encourages entrepreneurs to pledge to effectively donate a portion of their profits upon exiting. They're currently hiring for a bunch of roles in the US, including Applied Researcher, Growth Director, a part-time Senior Legal Counsel, and more.

Check out 140+ 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 has been getting back into fusion dancing now that everything is opening up again! If you're not familiar with fusion dancing (or partner dancing like swing, bachata, blues, lindy, etc.), check out this video and acquaint yourself. There are a surprisingly high number of EAs who are into partner dancing, so if you're one of them, get out there and tear up the floor!

Arushi really loved Howie Lempel's interview on the 80000 Hours podcast about having a successful career with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and imposter syndrome. Having recently been diagnosed with ADHD herself, she found it an incredibly insightful and encouraging conversation, and found Howie's advice very useful. She was also very excited to read the report of LEEP's successes in banning lead paint in Malawi; they've had lots of progress since they spoke for us in January!

Reading Group

This month, we'll be reading The Scout Mindset, the new book by Julia Galef!

The book is the culmination of Julia's research onto human behavior and rationality, and it has been extremely well received so far! You can buy the book using the link above, and join our monthly discussion on the 26th!

Join the EA NYC Slack and add yourself to the #reading-group channel to hop in the conversation!

Quotes We Love

"The first rule is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.”

-Richard Feynman

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

Yours,
A&A

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