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.

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Tee Barnett

Executive Director of Development

Tee Barnett currently serves as the Executive Director of Development at Rethink Charity 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.

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Peter Hurford

Co-founder and 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 and 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 completed her PhD, which focused on the cultural significance of online reputation systems. Before the PhD, Richenda earned her BA and MPhil in Sociology at the University of Cambridge

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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.

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Haryshwaran Ilanghovan

Head of Technology

Harysh is a software engineer working across all of Rethink Charity’s projects, across our entire stack from system administration to front-end development, but primarily focusing on LEAN and the EA Hub. He works out of Chennai and has a computer science degree from Anna University.

Other key advisers

Ben Clifford is Programme Director at Founders Pledge

Ozzie Gooen is an original co-founder of .impact and developer living in the Bay Area. Ozzie created Guesstimate, an app for creating Fermi calculations. 

Haseeb Qureshi is a software engineer at Airbnb, living in the Bay Area.

Selected Volunteers

Evan Gaensbauer, Sören Mindermann, Michał Trzęsimiech, Linchuan Zhang and Pascal Zimmer are members of the EA Newsletter team, together with Richenda. 

David Vatousios has been a key volunteer and part-time staff member for LEAN operations.

Patrick Brinich-Langlois, Alex Richard and William Saunders are software engineers who provide technical help for EA projects. Recently, they’ve been focused on the EA Forum.

Caleb Ontiveros has helped local groups share knowledge through group calls for many years.

Giles Edkins has worked on the EA Wiki.