Baxter Bullock

Executive Director of Operations

Baxter Bullock is the Co-founder (with Tee Barnett) and Executive Director of Students for High-Impact Charity (SHIC) and the SHIC Foundation, which carries out Canadian-based operations for Rethink Charity.

Prior to SHIC’s founding, Baxter served as the Programs Director for the Charity Science Foundation. He was also a high school math teacher for 4 years.

Tee Barnett

Executive Director of Development

Tee Barnett currently serves as the Executive Director of Development and COO of Students for High-Impact Charity (SHIC). Tee co-founded SHIC with Baxter Bullock in early 2016 and earned his M.A. specializing in International Development from National Chengchi University (政治大學) in Taipei.

Peter Hurford

Co-founder & Board Member

Peter Hurford is a Data Scientist at Rise Interactive and is on the Board of Directors for Charity Science and Animal Charity Evaluators. He also does direct work on our focus projects, particularly the EA Survey and EA Forum, for which he heads the tech team.

Tom Ash

Co-founder & Board Member

Tom Ash was the founder and first staff member of Rethink Charity (then called .impact); he created the EA Hub, EA Survey and LEAN among other resources. Since summer 2016 he’s steadily scaled back his work and is now a highly involved board member. He studied Philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford, and since graduating in 2008 has worked for a variety of non-profits including the Centre for Effective Altruism, where he was one of the three initial employees.

Richenda Herzig

Manager of the Local Effective Altruism Network (LEAN)

Richenda Herzig oversees practical support for groups in the local effective altruism network, having previously worked as a LEAN project coordinator under Tom Ash. Richenda recently earned her PhD in Sociology, exploring the social dynamics of reputation and rating systems in online communities. She also holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences and an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. Things that Richenda love include working with smart people to make the world better, hiking in Vancouver, and dabbling in tech.

Catherine Low

Manager of Community

Catherine Low currently teaches Ethics and Physics at a high school in New Zealand. In her youth she was obsessed with finding out the secrets of the universe, and gained a PhD in particle physics from The University of Melbourne.

Since then she has been a Science and Physics teacher, aiming to inspire students to improve the world using Science. A founding member of Effective Altruism New Zealand, she has been involved in effective altruism outreach for the last two years, giving presentations to any group who could possibly be convinced to listen, and has worked with Students for High-Impact Charity developing and trialling their educational resources.

Larissa Feng

Head of Tech

Larissa is a software developer and Computer Science student at the University of British Columbia. She does software development and provides tech support across all of Rethink Charity’s projects. Larissa is most excited about using tech to enable people to independently help themselves.

David Vatousios

Communications Officer

David will be running Giving Games and SHIC workshops in Vancouver secondary schools from early 2018. He is also currently responsible for much of the administration for the Local Effective Altruism Network (LEAN). David additionally works as an actor and, before moving to Vancouver from Melbourne, Australia, he spent several months performing in a two-man show for secondary schools about how best to deal with various teenage boys’ issues. David holds a BA in English and Classics from the University of Melbourne.