Executing Director

Henry is a second-year probably double-majoring in philosophy and data science — he’ll know by the end of the year. He spent summer 2022 in Hyde Park, researching the effects potential artificial intelligence regulations in California could have outside CA’s borders. When he isn’t working with UChicago EA or reading/writing, he’s pretending to be a lawyer with UChicago’s Mock Trial team, creating or solving crosswords as the Maroon’s puzzles editor, and solving problems.

He’d love to buy you a coffee and chat about EA, UChicago, your career plans, the most recent book you read, vegan cooking, or whatever’s been on your mind lately — schedule a meeting here or email henryj@uchicago.edu!

Managing Director

Michelle is a second-year from Plano, TX (around Dallas). She's undeclared but considering majoring in econ/stats and philosophy. She's particularly interested in suffering-focused ethics, factory farming, longtermist governance, global health + development, and meta-EA. Her hobbies include cooking, reading (loosely defined), self-improvement, yoga, and board games.

Contact her at mma02@uchicago.edu

Intro Fellowship Co-Lead

Sean is a sceond-year graduate student at the Law School from Los Angeles. (This winter will be an adjustment!) He’s interested in reducing extreme suffering, with a particular focus on non-human animals and risks from advanced artificial intelligence. He became interested in EA after learning about factory farming and searching the web for more information. He cofounded an EA student organization during his time as an undergraduate student at UCLA and looks forward to helping UChicago EA thrive!

Sign up for a chat with him here.

Intro Fellowship Co-Lead

Thomas is a third-year philosophy and economics major with broad-ranging interests. At the moment, he is particularly interested in the intersection of moral philosophy, epistemology, and decision theory.

Contact him at tdorsey@uchicago.edu.

X-Risk Initiative Lead

Isabella is a master’s student in computational social sciences. She’s excited to learn more about cooperative AI in a less abstract sense and methodologies of studying existential risks. She was a summer research fellow at Stanford Existential Risk Institute, where she considered how prediction technologies could transform the risks of war. She was also a Tianxia Academy Fellow and a Laidlaw Scholar. She has a BSc in philosophy and politics from University College London.

Contact her at isabelladuan@uchicago.edu.

Longtermist Policy Working Group Lead

Zack is a second-year MPP student at the Harris School of Public Policy. Previously, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Amherst College, was a SERI Summer Research Fellow, did independent research on population ethics, and co-founded the Amherst EA group. He now hopes to enter a career working on AI policy in the US federal government. He enjoys baking, house plants, and reading the classics.

Contact him at zrudolph@uchicago.edu

Newsletter Lead

Leonard is an exchange student from the University of Hong Kong. He studies philosophy, with a focus on ethics and political philosophy. He is interested in EA-meta, population ethics, effective philanthropy and various other topics in EA. Before coming to UChicago, Leonard was one of the executive members of Effective Altruism Hong Kong.

Contact him at leonardly@uchicago.edu.