Andreas P

I first encountered EA in late 2022 and in the summer of 2023 joined the Intro EA Virtual Program as my first real exposure to EA concepts and the EA community. 

Over those weeks in the course, diving into different EA topics, ideas and thoughts and getting to discuss them with my facilitator and fellow attendees, my connection to it grew.

As personal background I will share that I began feeling a desire to help the world around 2014, soon after finishing undergrad. This desire first pushed me to start volunteering for local organizations in small efforts, such as picking up trash in neighborhoods, assisting non profits with various manual labor type tasks and mentoring young adults. But those activities didn't satisfy my need. I tried a different strategy, which involved me changing careers to becoming a teacher and thereby getting to help others directly through education, and acquiring purposeful and family supporting careers. That worked for a few years, but afterwards I realized that it wasn't satisfying in every way I needed. The impact as a teacher was very individual, and thereby minimal in a grand scheme. I however, felt pushed to help in a greater scale.

I think that's one of the main reasons EA calls to me. It's about helping the world, and it looks at not just my town, but the world, not just those alive now, but in the future too. 

From a professional perspective my background is in engineering, program management, logistics, operations & consulting in various  industries. I have also worked in Higher Education focused on training and workforce development.

I am looking to help organization in the high impact and EA space.