Director of Operations at GovAI. I have a blog about nonprofit ops and strategy.
I previously co-founded and served as Executive Director at Wild Animal Initiative, was the COO of Rethink Priorities from 2020 to 2024, and ran an operations consultancy, Good Structures, from 2024-2025.
I think that the good opportunities in the farmed (vertebrate) animal welfare space are:
Smaller in scale than Coefficient’s budget (I think that EAs have been overestimating the cost-effectiveness of corporate campaigns for at least a few years, and the good opportunities are actually pretty limited).
Pretty likely to be funded by non-EAs / people who will give to farmed animal welfare no matter what.
I think that there are likely a couple exceptions to this (shrimp welfare, insect farming, and some other things that Coefficient cannot fund currently), but they are fairly small in scale, and have decent routes to funding.
I think the opportunity for impact for wild animal welfare is way bigger, and it’s much more “normal” (e.g. it seems like there are more viable interventions that are acceptable in the mainstream, don’t require significant lifestyle changes of people, etc, WAI has gotten some traction within conservation), and generally is more neglected.