Harvard Undergraduate EA

Harvard Undergraduate EA (HUEA) is the undergraduate subgroup of the Harvard University EA Student Group. HUEA is responsible for outreach and events targeted toward undergraduate students. HUEA organizes the Arete Fellowship, an introductory fellowship to EA that is open to undergraduate and graduate students.

Feel free to reach out to any member of board for questions about the club or EA in general.

Board Members

Nick Gabrieli
President & Precipice Reading Group Lead
ngabrieli@college.harvard.edu
Nick Gabrieli is a senior in Adams house studying Philosophy and Math.  He is interested in AI alignment and growing the Effective Altruism community, in addition to reading, board games, and meditation.

Lily Schwalb
Social Chair
lilyschwalb@college.harvard.edu
Lily Schwalb is a sophomore in Winthrop House concentrating in Mathematics and Philosophy with a secondary in Economics. Within Effective Altruism, she is interested in AI Alignment and ethics surrounding existential risk. In her free time you can find her watching movies or writing poetry

Daniela Shuman
Communications Director
dshuman@college.harvard.edu
Daniela is a senior in Cabot studying Computer Science and Statistics. Daniela is interested in urban issues, and within EA, she is interested in global poverty. She loves to hike, ski, and travel in her free time!

Zazie Huml
Global Health Programming Lead
zaziehuml@college.harvard.edu
Zazie Huml is a junior in Cabot House concentrating in social studies with a secondary in global health and health policy. Within EA they are interested in global health, development aid policy, and extreme poverty. Catch them hiking up a mountain, reading poetry or vibing to PinkFloyd in their free time.

Arete Fellowship Team

The chairs of the Arete Fellowship are also board members of Harvard College EA and Harvard University EA. Contact the team at harvardarete@gmail.com.

Will Nickols
Arete Fellowship Chair & Biological Emerging Risk Group Lead
willnickols@college.harvard.edu
Will is a senior in Kirkland concentrating in Chemical and Physical Biology and Statistics. Outside of EA, Will conducts environmental metagenomics research and enjoys teaching statistics, volunteering with PBHA, reading, and running.

John Boesen
Arete Fellowships Chair & Treasurer
jmboesen@college.harvard.edu
John Boesen is a junior in Dunster house concentrating in Computer Science and Statistics. He is interested in cause prioritization, AI alignment, and forecasting. Find him running, meditating, and playing guitar on weekends.

Keep an eye out for our Discussion Leaders for Fall 2023

Initiatives & Related Organizations

Harvard College EA coordinates with other clubs in a broader Harvard EA ecosystem. The leadership of these clubs also participates in HCEA/HUEA decision-making and community building.

Lena Ashooh
Co-lead of Harvard College Animal Advocates
lenaashooh@college.harvard.edu
harvardcollegeanimaladvocates@gmail.com
Lena is a junior in Kirkland studying Animal Behavior/Cognition and Philosophy. She's concerned about animal suffering and is interested in the obligations we have to the other animals. Lena works in Dr. Irene Pepperberg's avian cognition laboratory with two ingenious parrots, plays the harp, and loves to run.

Zavier Chavez
Co-lead of Harvard College Animal Advocates
zavierchavez@college.harvard.edu
harvardcollegeanimaladvocates@gmail.com
Zavier is a senior in Adams concentrating in Philosophy and Environmental Science. Outside of animal welfare, he is interested in music, fashion, and food.

Advisors

aL Xin
Advisor
axin@college.harvard.edu
aL is a senior in Adams concentrating in Statistics with a secondary in Linguistics. They are interested in pandemic preparedness and global health. aL assists with the Arete and also programming from other groups in the Harvard EA ecosystem.

Nikola Jurkovic
Advisor
njurkovic@college.harvard.edu
Nikola is a sophomore in Dudley house. He is interested in longtermism, community building, and making sure AI has a positive impact on the future.

Joshua Greene
Faculty Advisor
Joshua Greene is an experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. He studies moral judgment and decision-making, primarily using behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging (fMRI). Other interests include religion, cooperation, and the capacity for complex thought. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them.

Elliot Glazer
HUEA Liaison
Elliott is a Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.