Spencer R. Ericson 🔸

Spencer is the Community Engagement Coordinator at Giving What We Can. She helps people around the world learn how to make significant, effective giving a sustainable part of their lives with the 🔸 10% Pledge.

Spencer studied psychology and mathematics at University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2023, she published Probability and intentional action in Cognitive Psychology based on her undergraduate research project.

Spencer figured that if she had been comfortable enough growing up on government assistance, she would be even more comfortable on an entry-level salary -- she found out about effective giving when she wanted to donate part of her first full-time paycheque effectively, and then Googled "most effective charities." It just felt right.

Outside of work, she also advises philanthropists on effective giving through her solopreneur project, Phare Philanthropy. Spencer enjoys volunteering in her local Vancouver community, including with her lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. She is always covered in fur from her two rescue cats.