Team

The Nonlinear founders

Kat Woods
President and Co-founder

Kat Woods co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship (CE), an OpenPhil-funded neartermist charity incubator. It has launched 18 charities so far, including Fortify Health, Fish Welfare Initiative, Family Empowerment Media, and Training for Good.
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Kat also co-founded Charity Science Health, which helped vaccinate 200,000+ children in India and received multiple GiveWell grants. According to GiveWell’s estimates at the time, Charity Science Health was similarly cost-effective to AMF.
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You can find her EA writing here and here. You can find her personal blog here. 

Emerson Spartz
Co-founder

Before beginning his EA journey in 2017, Emerson Spartz founded Dose, a top digital media company with $35 million in funding. Dose's videos generate billions of video views, and the company's broadcast TV show, Morning Dose, airs on CW stations nationwide. Previously, Spartz created 20+ of the world's largest viral content sites, attracting 50 million visitors monthly. Spartz was named to both Forbes' and Inc Magazine's "30 Under 30" lists.

At age 12, Spartz founded Mugglenet, the #1 Harry Potter site and one of the internet's largest communities. By the age of 19, Spartz became a New York Times bestselling author after publishing his first book.

The Nonlinear team

Drew Spartz
Head of Incubation Program

Spartz previously founded Superlinear - an AI safety bounty platform, the Nonlinear Network, a digital media company, and helped manage a family office. An avid reader and traveler, he reads one nonfiction book every night after work while traveling through 50+ countries.

Luca De Leo
Platform Development Intern

Luca has been pursuing a Masters in Computer Science degree at the university of Buenos Aires. He recently received a grant from the LTFF to study AI Safety and work on various EA projects, including Superlinear and some others yet to be revealed.
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Our advisors

Robert Miles
Advisor

Rob Miles is a science communicator focused on AI Safety and Alignment. He has a YouTube channel called Rob Miles AI, and runs The Alignment Newsletter Podcast, which presents summaries of the week's research. He also collaborates with research organisations like the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the Future of Humanity Institute, and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, to help them communicate their work.

David Moss
​Advisor

David Moss is the Principal Research Manager at Rethink Priorities. He previously worked for Charity Science and has worked on the EA Survey for several years. David studied Philosophy at Cambridge and is an academic researcher of moral psychology.

Spencer Greenberg
Advisor

Spencer is a mathematician and entrepreneur. He founded Spark Wave, a startup foundry which creates novel software products designed to solve problems in the world. He also founded ClearerThinking.org, which offers free tools and programs that have been used by over 150,000 people. Spencer has a PhD in applied math from NYU, with a specialty in machine learning. Spencer's work has been featured by major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Independent, Lifehacker, and Fast Company.

Deena Englander
​​Advisor

​Deena Englander is the founder and CEO of WorkStream Business Systems. Her specialty is in developing processes and implementing technology to streamline and optimize workflow,  providing business leaders with the systems they need to most effectively run their business.