“History of projects and trends on diversity in EA” by Julia_Wise🔸

This is a Draft Amnesty Week post.

Last year, an EA community member who was scoping out some projects related to diversity and inclusion in EA noted that one challenge was not knowing what had been tried before. I drafted this summary but never got it out the door.

The atmosphere around DEI interventions, in the US at least, is different than it was when I first drafted this. I’m not intending this as commentary as anything going on currently, but as finally publishing an old draft. The main update I've made is to add some demographic data that recently came out from the 2024 EA Survey.

I don’t mean this post as a claim that EAs have done all the right things. I mean it as a historical record so people can better gauge what's been tried over time, what might be worth trying differently, and [...]

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Outline:

(01:17) Organizational / program efforts

(08:07) Efforts in hiring / staffing at EA orgs

(11:58) Other research / content / major discussions in the community

(21:40) Demographic trends over time

(21:45) Location

(22:39) Race

(23:28) Gender

(24:35) Political views

(25:06) Age

(25:20) Experiences at events

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
March 4th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6FLvBaEwiiqf9JGEJ/history-of-projects-and-trends-on-diversity-in-ea

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