Meet the Team

Nicole leads our team, setting our strategic direction and helping us achieve our goals within individual projects and across the team at large. Nicole has also coordinated with other EA organizations and projects across a broad range of areas, such as communications and politics. Before joining CEA, Nicole worked at Open Philanthropy, GiveWell, and the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai. Outside of work, Nicole is a fan of dogs and hiking.

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Chana supports high school outreach efforts and investigates areas of improvement for community epistemics (how we form beliefs about the world). Before joining CEA, Chana was a high school math teacher in Pittsburgh, New York, and London. She has also contracted for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA from Columbia University. Her hobbies include crossword puzzles and pub trivia.

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Julia oversees community wellbeing. Her work includes projects such as improving community members’ access to mental health services and conveying feedback from more junior to more senior community members. She is also a go-to person for specific cases where community members find themselves in challenging situations. She serves on the board of GiveWell and writes about effective altruism, parenting, and other topics at Otherwise. She was president of Giving What We Can from 2017-2020. Before joining CEA, Julia was a social worker, and studied sociology at Bryn Mawr College. Outside of EA, she’s active in the folk dancing community.

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Catherine is the main contact for community health support for groups, and also works on assessing and mitigating risks to the EA community. Alongside Julia, she is a go-to person for specific cases where community members find themselves in challenging situations. Before joining CEA, Catherine managed the Students for High-Impact Charity program and taught science, physics, and ethics at the high school level. She was also heavily involved in EA community building in New Zealand and Australia. Catherine holds a PhD in physics from the University of Melbourne. Outside of work, Catherine’s hobbies include kayaking and trail running.

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Eve supports the work of Nicole and other members of the team and is responsible for our internal systems. Before joining CEA, she ran EA Cambridge full-time. Eve holds a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge, and is particularly interested in the early medieval period. She also enjoys archaeology and is a big fan of Doctor Who.

Charlotte works alongside Catherine and Julia as the go-to person for community members to contact about challenges or bad experiences they have in the community. Before joining our team, Charlotte worked on CEA's Events team and has also been involved in various community-building projects outside of CEA, such as EAGxOxford 2022, UK high school outreach, and university group events. She studied History and Modern Languages at the University of Exeter.