Seattle Effective Altruists

Seattle, WA, US

1,002 members · Public group

Organized by Luke and 5 others

What we’re about

Effective Altruism is a growing social movement founded on the desire to make the world as good a place as it can be, the use of evidence and reason to find out how to do so, and the audacity to actually takes steps towards a better world.

We post monthly meetups here, however our Facebook group is more active: https://www.facebook.com/groups/22161213135..., feel free to join it as well.
Through our Facebook group you can also find out about rationality reading meetups as well as social meetups.

Want to read more about Effective Altruism? Start here: http://www.effectivealtruism.org/
Or download the EA Handbook: http://www.careyryan.com/files/EA_Handbook.pdf

Here are some links to keep in contact with the community and notifications of future events:

Seattle Rationality: https://linktr.ee/seattle_rationalty
Seattle Effective Altruism: https://linktr.ee/seattle_effective_altruists

If you have ideas on events you would want to host or help host, please seek out any of the admins, moderators or event organizers to get access to post on the respective channels.

Featured event

Sat, Jul 5, 2025, 2:00 PM PDTMovie afternoon: Bending the Arc (about Partners in Health and PEPFAR)

Seattle Public Library Northgate Branch, Seattle, WA

Movie afternoon: Bending the Arc (about Partners in Health and PEPFAR) cover photo

Spend the first Saturday of July in a nice air-conditioned library meeting room, and watch a documentary about Partners in Health! The first part of this film discusses efforts against tuberculosis, and the second part shows the founding and impact of PEPFAR, the U.S.'s decades-long effort to distribute ART therapy, which had been one of the key programs that turned the tide of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
This documentary has everything!

--Learn about Vlogbrothers' hero Paul Farmer and the founding of Partners in Health
--See a younger, fresher Anthony Fauci
--Boo at Andrew Natsios for saying Africans can't use clocks
--Bask in nostalgia for a time when even a Republican president put global health concerns front and center
This film was assigned viewing for my Problems in Global Health class this past fall, and I have been itching to share it since, especially since the systemic assault on global health funding began this January. But, better late than never.