I am currently a Fieldbuilding Fellow at the Astra Fellowship, and I focus my work on hiring needs and talent pipelines in the AI safety community.
Previously I was a volunteer at Anima International (2017-2023), where I ran a local volunteer group and a campaign team. In 2024, I set up the EA group at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (currently a city-wide EA group for students).
I hold a Master’s degree in applied psychology. I usually spend my free time doing arts (painting, drawing, crocheting, sewing, and others) or engaging in physical activities (dancing, bouldering, cycling, climbing trees).
Please have a very low bar for reaching out. I am happy to talk to every person in the EA or AI safety community.
Thanks for pointing that out! You (and your Claude) are correct, there are some people who have experience in fieldbuilding somewhere in the world. However, this is a very niche background, and people who have it are very difficult to find. If you’re looking for a person with this type of background for your organisation, there are no obvious groups that you could reach out to as a potential employer; as far as I know, there are no communities that bring together fieldbuilders from different fields (as compared to communities of IT specialists working in different fields, or scientists from different sciences); you can’t even easily headhunt them via LinkedIn, because the official names of their positions probably do not include the world “fieldbuilding”. What I meant in the specific sentence you refer to is that there are close to no pools, and not close to no fieldbuilders. Happy to discuss further if you have follow-up questions!