I’m Ruth, from Cape Town, originally from the UK.
I first got into EA at Oxford, hearing a Peter Singer lecture and meeting the guys from 80,000 Hours in their early days. I then worked in management consulting until I got fed up of big city/corporate life and moved to Cape Town to run an incubator.
After working in a few startups, I re-engaged with EA through Magnify Mentoring, ultimately getting a job which I love at an EA-backed NGO (not named since I’m writing in my personal capacity and not representing the organisation in any way).