JamesÖz 🔸

I do farm animal welfare grantmaking at Coefficient Giving. I was previously doing social movement and protest-related research at Social Change Lab, an EA-aligned research organisation I've founded.

Previously, I completed the 2021 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. Before that, I was on the Strategy team at Extinction Rebellion UK, working on movement-building for animal advocacy and climate change.

My blog (often EA related content)

See a bit more about me here.

Posts

UK Voters for Animals is running our 2nd mass lobby day! Tuesday 10th November.
by JamesÖz 🔸, Eleanor McAree 🔸, vicky_cox, Hugh P, Billy Nicholles @ 2026-08-06 | +21 | 0 comments
Request For Proposals: US College Farm Animal Advocacy Program
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2026-03-25 | +8 | 0 comments
What I didn't expect about being a funder
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2026-03-11 | +139 | 0 comments
Why you can justify almost anything using historical social movements
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-04-24 | +288 | 0 comments
UK Voters for Animals Social & Work Party (London, UK)
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-04-19 | +10 | 0 comments
UK Voters for Animals Social and Work Party (Cambridge, UK)
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-04-19 | +8 | 0 comments
Red-teaming PowerSmoothie.org by Holden Karnofsky
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-04-01 | +105 | 0 comments
Winning is underrated in grassroots movements
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-03-10 | +50 | 0 comments
Strategic Animal Funding Circle - Round 2 is now live!
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-02-17 | +30 | 0 comments
Take action to help insects: UK government consultation [5-10 minutes]
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2025-02-15 | +109 | 0 comments
The default trajectory for animal welfare means vastly more suffering
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2024-10-11 | +275 | 0 comments
Announcing the Strategic Animal Funding Circle!
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2024-08-29 | +95 | 0 comments
Job opportunities with new Labour MPs
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2024-07-08 | +73 | 0 comments
My lifelong pledge to give away 10% of my income each year (and where I donated...
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2024-02-13 | +93 | 0 comments
Six months in - new animal advocacy podcast episodes from How I Learned to Love...
by JamesÖz 🔸, AmyOdene @ 2023-10-19 | +74 | 0 comments
An expert survey on social movements and protest
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2023-07-12 | +93 | 0 comments
Announcing a new animal advocacy podcast: How I Learned to Love Shrimp
by JamesÖz 🔸, AmyOdene @ 2023-04-13 | +196 | 0 comments
Tensions between different approaches to doing good
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2023-03-19 | +111 | 0 comments
Animal Advocacy Digest #4: Dec 24th- Jan 20th
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2023-01-20 | +43 | 0 comments
Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm Animals This Decade
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2023-01-11 | +71 | 0 comments
What you prioritise is mostly moral intuition
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-12-24 | +77 | 0 comments
Animal Advocacy Digest #3: Dec 2nd - Dec 23rd
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-12-23 | +35 | 0 comments
Radical tactics can increase support for more moderate groups
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-12-16 | +92 | 0 comments
Animal Advocacy Digest #2 (Nov 18th - Dec 2nd)
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-12-02 | +31 | 0 comments
Effective Altruism: Not as bad as you think
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-11-24 | +169 | 0 comments
Introducing the Animal Advocacy Bi-Weekly Digest (Nov 4 - Nov 18)
by JamesÖz 🔸, Sharang Phadke @ 2022-11-18 | +81 | 0 comments
Protest movements: How effective are they?
by JamesÖz 🔸, Sam Glover @ 2022-08-22 | +143 | 0 comments
High-risk high-reward philanthropy: applying venture capital concepts to doing...
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-07-04 | +23 | 0 comments
Disruptive climate protests in the UK didn’t lead to a loss of public support...
by JamesÖz 🔸, Sam Glover @ 2022-06-20 | +34 | 0 comments
Megaprojects for animals
by JamesÖz 🔸, Neil_Dullaghan🔹 @ 2022-06-13 | +275 | 0 comments
The dangers of high salaries within EA organisations
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-06-10 | +38 | 0 comments
Initial research on social movements & protest
by JamesÖz 🔸, Sam Glover @ 2022-03-28 | +39 | 0 comments
When did EA miss a great opportunity to do good?
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-03-09 | +40 | 0 comments
Some thoughts on recent Effective Altruism funding announcements
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-03-03 | +116 | 0 comments
Potential Theories of Change for the Animal Advocacy movement
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2022-02-09 | +91 | 0 comments
A case for the effectiveness of protest
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2021-11-29 | +123 | 0 comments
[Linkpost] GiveWell money moved in 2020 - up by 60%!
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2021-11-13 | +19 | 0 comments
Upcoming Effective Environmentalism talks
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2021-11-06 | +32 | 0 comments
Analysis of EA funding within Animal Welfare from 2019-2021
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2021-09-27 | +54 | 0 comments
James Özden's Quick takes
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2021-04-08 | +2 | 0 comments
How we averted 130,000 animal deaths (in expectation) with a volunteer campaign.
by JamesÖz 🔸 @ 2021-04-05 | +41 | 0 comments