Module 01
Cost-Effectiveness
Sr. Director, Research · GiveDirectly (SF)
You've read about cost-effective ways to help people in extreme poverty. Caitlin (USAID, MIT) has spent her career developing better methods for cost-effectiveness analysis, and applying those methods to everything from education, humanitarian response, and cash-transfers for poverty alleviation. Bring your nerdiest questions, or a take you've never said out loud in EA-adjacent rooms.
Example prompts
- Who has the best cost-effectiveness model for global giving?
- How do you measure impact when counterfactuals are impossible?
- Where does cash work — and where does it stop?
Module 02
Labor Disruption & UBI
Executive Director, U.S. Programs · GiveDirectly (SF)
If you care about AI labor disruption in wealthy countries and the best interventions happening right now, talk to Dustin. He's overseen some of America's largest cash tests and brings a sobering view to the latest evidence. Hear where UBI works, where it breaks, and where the smartest bets are for making an AI-disruption-ready safety net.
Example prompts
- What's your take on Altman's UBI study / a public wealth fund?
- What actually works in redistribution and where does it fall apart?
- Where's the highest-leverage place to give if you care about U.S. AI job displacement?
Module 03
Impact Portfolios and Giving
President & CEO · GiveDirectly (SF/NY)
Nick has spent nearly two decades running large-scale operations (Change.org, GiveDirectly), advising effective giving orgs (GiveWell, Coefficient Giving), building technology, working on political campaigns and helping people maximize their impact through their voice, money and time. Talk to him about different theories of change, allocating across causes and what works at scale.
Example prompts
- How to construct a giving portfolio across causes and risk profiles
- What do even smart donors get wrong when starting out?
- How to evaluate specific giving opportunities?