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Thank you for sharing! One thing that could help this feel more readable is to use full words more often in place of acronyms. I was on an EA retreat recently where one person was the designated “acronym police” and would pipe up anytime things got too jargony. Even for people who know the acronyms, challenging ourselves to use them less frequently can make text more easily understood.

Thanks so much for conducting this research you both! And of course for the write-up :)

I’m curious about this: How cumbersome (or not cumbersome) did you find collecting this information by yourself (especially as a small org)? For future hires: Would you prefer to do this again but let someone else take over this research? What do you think about an HH employee conducting the research vs. an external party?

Just asking as I wonder if we could have more of these insights by removing any (potentially existing) roadblocks.

A thought: though this was done in an interview sort of format, I think writing it from their perspective (not making up words, but creating a narrative that weaves large swaths of quoted text from them in) could have been cool.

But I do really dig the idea of potentially being able to interface a bit of natural community building into the EA job sphere and think that this seems like a really, really impactful hire because you:

• Hired someone who fulfilled the work duties quite well

• Helped build out the Animal Welfare (AW) space in another country by engaging an involved member and infusing the space there with more of an EA AW perspective.

• Helped build out EA in a country without many (or maybe any?) groups at all before this.

Great job here.