Contact our community liaisons
Contact our team
If you’d like to report a concern, you can reach our team’s community liaisons. The easiest way is via this form:
Please have a low bar for getting in touch; we find that people often downweight their own experiences, so please err on the side of contacting us. We might not have capacity to respond in depth to everyone, but any information you can give us is valuable data that can help us to spot patterns of problems in the community.
You might contact us:
- To report something you experienced in the EA community that made you uncomfortable
- To let us know about harmful behavior in the EA community (harassment, mean behavior, dishonesty, etc by a person or an organization)
- To ask us to pass on feedback to an organization or organization leader on your behalf
If you’d like to have an anonymous, real-time conversation with us, we can do that through Google Chat with your anonymous email address, a call with video off, or another platform. Please let us know if you’d prefer this.
To pass on feedback or concerns about our work, you can contact Nicole (our team lead) or Chana (our deputy team lead) individually, if you prefer.
If you want to reach a specific staff member
Our preferred way for you to contact us is via this form, but if you prefer, you can also reach out to any of the community liaisons individually (see below). You can also reach Nicole or Chana individually.
If you want your message not to reach a particular member of the community health team, please send it to a different team member and we can handle it without including that person. (For example, if you prefer not to involve one of our staff because they’re friends with someone involved in the problem.)
Catherine
Catherine has particular experience advising about
- Problems with city, national, or professional EA groups
- Projects with significant potential downside risks e.g., those related to policy, in a new field, a new location, a sensitive topic, or that involve significant outreach
- Dealing with people in the community who could cause significant problems, including people who might harass others, could be untrustworthy, or might take unnecessary risks
You can contact Catherine at catherine@centreforeffectivealtruism.org or anonymously via this form.
Charlotte
Charlotte has particular experience advising about
- Problems in university EA groups
- Being a contact person for multi-day events such as conferences and retreats
- Interpersonal issues relating to gender
You can contact Charlotte at charlotte.darnell@centreforeffectivealtruism.org or anonymously via this form.
Julia
Julia has particular experience advising about
- Organizational health and policies
- Serious mental health issues
- Serious interpersonal harm
- Being a contact person for multi-day events such as conferences and retreats
You can contact Julia at julia.wise@centreforeffectivealtruism.org or anonymously via this form.
Other people or services you could contact
Our community liaisons are here to support the EA community in tackling our shared goals. We are not a substitute for other types of support from mental health providers, the justice system, or the support of friends and family. Some other places you could seek help:
- Other members of the EA community
- Your local EA group organizer if the issue you are having is with another member of the group
- The event organizers, if the issue relates to an event you are attending
- A human resources staff member if the issue relates to a workplace
- If you need mental health care, we recommend you seek help from mental health experts. Mental Health Navigator is a service aimed at the effective altruism community that provides some resources and guidance for accessing mental health care. However, we are available to advise when someone in the community is having a mental health crisis.
- If you’ve been a victim of a crime, consider whether it makes sense to report the crime to the relevant authorities in your region. If the perpetrator of the crime is associated with the EA community, the community liaisons would like to know and can help you access support. You might find some of the services listed here useful: