I’m Antje, currently based in Berlin (although moving to Lübeck (Germany) soon) and a public policy researcher focusing on social protection and education policies as well as government budgeting.
I was introduced to the EA community a couple of years ago through newspaper articles and joined the EA virtual program in 2022. I co-founded an EA local group in Lübeck the same year, alongside Erik Jentzen (currently EA Switzerland) and joined a career orientation program run virtually by an EA group from Rotterdam.
Through engagement with EA ideas I decided to pivot my career from psychology (my undergraduate degree) to public policy and studied the M.Sc. in Public Policy and Human Development at Maastricht University and United Nations University from 2022-2023. I then worked for a member of the federal parliament of Germany (Deutscher Bundestag) of the green party in the areas of social protection and government budgeting. I am now transitioning into a role as a monitoring and evaluation researcher for an education program for the city of Hamburg in Germany. Career-wise, I am currently focusing on building career capital within the policy sector.
In my free time, I have started volunteering for the Sustainable Pet Food Foundation (https://sustainablepetfood.info/), which is trying to enhance public knowledge on plant-based or cultivated pet food alternatives (especially for dogs) and believe this could be an emerging EA issue. Dog and cat food consumes around 9% of all farmed land animals annually – or at least seven billion globally (even after accounting for the use of animal byproducts in pet food). As well as sparing billions of animals from slaughter each year, global implementation of nutritionally sound vegan pet diets would save more greenhouse gases than produced by the entire UK (1.5 times as much), vast amounts of land and freshwater, and sufficient food energy to feed 450 million additional people (the entire EU population).
I would love to share some more thoughts on alternative proteins for pet food usage on the forum and hear your thoughts on it.
Thank you for reding this far and please feel free to reach out.
Hi everyone,
I’m Antje, currently based in Berlin (although moving to Lübeck (Germany) soon) and a public policy researcher focusing on social protection and education policies as well as government budgeting.
I was introduced to the EA community a couple of years ago through newspaper articles and joined the EA virtual program in 2022. I co-founded an EA local group in Lübeck the same year, alongside Erik Jentzen (currently EA Switzerland) and joined a career orientation program run virtually by an EA group from Rotterdam.
Through engagement with EA ideas I decided to pivot my career from psychology (my undergraduate degree) to public policy and studied the M.Sc. in Public Policy and Human Development at Maastricht University and United Nations University from 2022-2023. I then worked for a member of the federal parliament of Germany (Deutscher Bundestag) of the green party in the areas of social protection and government budgeting. I am now transitioning into a role as a monitoring and evaluation researcher for an education program for the city of Hamburg in Germany. Career-wise, I am currently focusing on building career capital within the policy sector.
In my free time, I have started volunteering for the Sustainable Pet Food Foundation (https://sustainablepetfood.info/), which is trying to enhance public knowledge on plant-based or cultivated pet food alternatives (especially for dogs) and believe this could be an emerging EA issue. Dog and cat food consumes around 9% of all farmed land animals annually – or at least seven billion globally (even after accounting for the use of animal byproducts in pet food). As well as sparing billions of animals from slaughter each year, global implementation of nutritionally sound vegan pet diets would save more greenhouse gases than produced by the entire UK (1.5 times as much), vast amounts of land and freshwater, and sufficient food energy to feed 450 million additional people (the entire EU population).
I would love to share some more thoughts on alternative proteins for pet food usage on the forum and hear your thoughts on it.
Thank you for reding this far and please feel free to reach out.
Best,
Antje (she/ her)
Welcome Antje!
I work on the EA Forum team, so feel free to ask me questions whenever—about EA or the Forum,
Cheers,
Toby