Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸

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I run EA Anywhere, a virtual group for people who don’t have local groups nearby.

I co-founded EA Russia and have been involved in community building for the last three years. I contributed to several EA organizations as a research intern, created a Youtube channel with EA-related videos, and studied the MIT Micromasters program on global health and development policy.

I’d be happy to chat about EA or introduce you to the EA Anywhere group:

• https://calendly.com/sashaberezhnoi

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-berezhnoi/

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 18 Nov 2024 0:16 UTC
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in reply to: Taymon’s comment on: EAGxVirtual 2024: Livestream and Discussion Thread
You are right, EA Software Engineers group is no longer active. Their virtual events were quite useful, and you can still access the recordings and slides here.
EA Data Science group hosts events sometimes, and their channel on EA Anywhere Slack is pretty active.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 15 Nov 2024 23:31 UTC
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on: EAGxVirtual 2024: Livestream and Discussion Thread
Making EAGxVirtual more accessible has been our aspiration since 2022, and I’m excited we reached a new milestone with the public livestream!
Despite the common advice to “focus on 1-1s, you can always watch talk recordings later”, I found most people (including myself!) only watch talks if they attend them live. And the virtual conference allows us to invite speakers from anywhere in the world who wouldn’t be able to present at in-person EAGx.
Here are some sessions I’m personally excited about:
You can access recordings of past talks and explore the agenda here.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 22 Aug 2024 17:41 UTC
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on: Sasha Berezhnoi’s Quick takes
Opportunity for creatives in EA:
Arts for the Future Festival (September 13-29) is an artist-led, global hybrid festival, online and in-person in New York, leading up to and beyond the UN Summit of the Future. It’s a great chance to show your work and connect with other artists.
How you can participate:
- Curate a virtual or in-person event (e.g. a film screening, poetry jam, guided tour, workshop, photography exhibition, etc).
- Submit your artwork for the Open Call (by September 12th). Selected artworks will be featured in a virtual gallery and in Times Square.
- Collaborate and connect with other artists.
I’m a big fan of long-term art projects and it would be exciting to see artworks reflecting on long-term thinking, care for future generations, etc. The festival is hosted by Lisa Russell, an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker with a passion for promoting artist representation in global policymaking spaces.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 15 May 2024 14:01 UTC
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in reply to: Jamie_Harris’s comment on: EA Anywhere Slack: consolidating professional and affinity groups
Hey Jamie, yes, it is. We have 500+ weekly active members. I see that you have an existing account with “jamie.a.harris94 [at] gmail [dot] com”, you can try to log in using it. Otherwise, just DM me your preferred email and I will send an invitation link.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 21 Mar 2024 22:18 UTC
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on: Videos on the world’s most pressing problems, by 80,000 Hours
Have you used any ads to promote these videos? For me as a viewer, it’s always suspicious to see a large number of views with very little engagement (for AI video: 1.1M views, 500 likes, 50 comments). I’d suggest relying more on organic growth in the future, it will give the videos more credibility in the eyes of viewers.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 17 Nov 2023 1:44 UTC
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in reply to: Elliot Billingsley’s comment on: Apply Now: EAGxVirtual (17-19 November)
Hi Elliot, we listed the organizations on the career fair’s page on Swapcard. Keep in mind that some orgs are hosting office hours during the weekend but are not represented at the career fair and vice versa.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 6 Nov 2023 3:11 UTC
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in reply to: MichaelRipa’s comment on: Curious about EAGxVirtual? Ask the team anything!
Hi Michael,
Here are some quick thoughts:
- Make sure to block some time for attendees to reflect on their conference goals & planning. We are hosting a workshop on Friday to encourage this type of reflection (“First-timers at EAGx”, at 3 pm UTC). You can also use our planning worksheet.
- Group activities like watching talks together, in-person 1-1s, and shared lunch seem like good ideas!
- It is better if space for 1-1s isn’t packed very tight. It can be distracting when lots of people speaking around. And if two people are attending the same meetup or office hours they will hear each other speaking both in their headphones and in the room.
We’ve already heard about multiple groups from different countries planning such co-attending sessions, it’s exciting! I think it’s especially valuable in regions with a lack of reliable infrastructure (e.g. where home internet is not reliable but it’s possible to book a room at a local university or coworking with fiber internet).

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 22 Sep 2023 18:13 UTC
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in reply to: Patrick Liu’s comment on: Apply Now: EAGxVirtual (17-19 November)
No, there is no cap. I definitely encourage you to apply! Based on previous EAGxVirtual events, we are expecting 1,000 − 1,500 participants.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 20 Sep 2023 17:38 UTC
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on: Apply Now: EAGxVirtual (17-19 November)
I’m very excited about organizing this event! You can find a sidenote on my personal experience with EAGxVitual in last year’s announcement. During the recent career conversations week it became even more clear to me how pivotal the EAGxVirtual 2020 was for my life and career. It helped me to find a mentor, with whom we ended up working for 6 months, and to identify the next steps to test my career fit in multiple areas—community building, research, and charity entrepreneurship. I never thought spending a weekend in front of a laptop could have such huge pay-offs, haha!
If you have any questions or suggestions, please, leave a message here or contact us at virtual@eaglobalx.org

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 5 Sep 2023 21:21 UTC
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on: Career Conversations Week on the Forum (8-15 September)
I really like these themed events on the EA Forum and would love to see more of them! Thanks to everyone who contributes with posts, quick takes, and comments.
We scheduled related online discussions at EA Anywhere to facilitate knowledge-sharing and highlight useful career-related actions. Everyone is welcome to join!
- September 10 at 6 pm UTC (Europe/America)
- September 11 at 11 am UTC (Asia/Oceania)

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 27 Aug 2023 1:04 UTC
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on: How Minds Change Reading Group
Hey everyone, we rescheduled both discussions to next weekend as @Dion and I both have caught a cold. This will give some extra time for those who haven’t finished reading the book yet!
Updated discussion schedule:
- (Europe/Americas) September 3 at 6 pm UTC
- (Asia/Oceania) September 3 at 5:30 am UTC

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 13 Jun 2023 21:08 UTC
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on: EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24)
In line with the EA Strategy Fortnight, we at EA Anywhere have decided to center this month’s discussion around major strategic EA questions and host two virtual events this Sunday for different time zones:
- Europe/America—June 18 at 6 pm UTC
- Asia/Oceania—June 18 at 7 am UTC

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 14 May 2023 20:40 UTC
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on: Consider using the EA Gather Town for your online meetings and events
Thanks to EA GatherTown team for your efforts! It’s a great coworking space for remote teams. When we worked on EAGxVirtual last year it definitely helped us to sync faster and do more work. I also know many people outside of major EA hubs who are using the GT coworking space to stay accountable and productive. And because embedded pomodoro timers are synced you can have breaks at the same time and chat with others.
We’ve received lots of excited comments about EA GT in the EAGxVirtual ’22 feedback form, so we are looking into incorporating it even more this year as a virtual venue. Though some people were confused with the platform and asked for a better guidance/onboarding.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 10 May 2023 15:49 UTC
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in reply to: Alisha ’s comment on: EA Anywhere Discussion: The challenge of disaster relief
Hi Alisha, you can check the article by Kelsey Piper on disaster relief. Our conclusions were similar to the ones she makes there.
You can join EA Anywhere Slack and ask your question in the #all-questions-welcome channel to collect more perspectives from participants.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 30 Apr 2023 12:38 UTC
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on: Escape from Model Land Reading Group
Hi everyone, the host got really sick and can’t host the meeting today.
It’s been rescheduled for next Sunday, May 7th.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 31 Jan 2023 15:38 UTC
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on: Online EA bookclub, anyone?
Hi Manuel, we’ve been running a monthly book club at EA Anywhere for more than a year now. You can find the list of the books we read and discussion questions in this folder. I also really like this ranked list of EA-relevant books and often use it for inspiration.
But we host only one discussion per book which is different from, say, the 8-week The Precipice reading group or the 6-week WWOtF reading group curriculum.
We have a #study-buddy channel on EA Anywhere Slack designed specifically for finding collaborators, reading buddies, and accountability partners. It has >4000 members so it might be a good idea to post there as well.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 12 Nov 2022 17:13 UTC
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on: Worldview Upgrader Quiz
We have rescheduled the event from November 13 to December 4th because one of the organizers is sick, sorry for the inconvenience.
In the meantime, you can explore quizzes on the most common misconceptions via Gapminder.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 9 Nov 2022 21:06 UTC
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on: Test Your Knowledge of the World’s Biggest Problems
I’m a big fan of Gapminder and their quizzes on global development. Good to see more content like that. I even scheduled an event at EA Anywhere based on your quiz. Thanks for putting it all together!

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 4 Nov 2022 22:21 UTC
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in reply to: Mischi’s comment on: Progress Open Thread: EAGxVirtual 2022
Update: all the talks from the conference are now available in this playlist.

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸 22 Oct 2022 15:11 UTC
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in reply to: Mischi’s comment on: Progress Open Thread: EAGxVirtual 2022
Hi Mischi, all the talks, workshops, and fireside chats will be available on CEA’s YouTube channel next week.