Thank you Toby! 

Hi there everyone! 🪷

My name is Shivani, new to the Forum! I'm based in Stockholm, Sweden. I got involved with EA thorugh the career guidence service, which I'm very grateful for. EA wasn't a complete stranger before that, however, it wasn't until I got approached about it that I did get involved. 

Being someone passionate about impact and the betterment of our planet and society, I feel like I should've explored the EA community before. At the same time, I'm quite shy when it comes to getting into new spaces, so not that surprising. 

I relate to what many people say about the EA community being a bit overwhelming at the beginning, and I join to what @Karen Maria Alston said about being a reader and a lurker. However, I'm excited about being part of this forum and having the chance to grow in it. 

I'm currently living the akward limbo between the end of my studies and landing THE job. I have a Master's in Sustainable Societies and, after more than a year applying to a wide variety of positions, I realized that I should focus on Operations. Thanks to a presentation durig the Summit I attended last November, I realized that ops in EA is the role I want to play. Currently I'm also participating in the CEA Operations Career Bootcamp. 

Speaking in EA terms, the problem I want to focus on is social and climate justice, and more recently, the intersection between AI governance and climate change. I know that those are not considered neglected topics, but I'm very passionate about them and, until I find a more neglected niche intersection, I'll stick with those. I'd say I'm still working on my plan to improve the world and my theory of change. 

I don't know what else I should say, so I'll say thank you for reading my rambling, and I welcome anyone who wants to connect and/or chat. 

I'd like to finish with a quote from Freedom is a constant struggle by Angela Y. Davis: " We will have to go to great lengths. We cannot go on as usual. We cannot pivot the center. We cannot be moderate. We will have to be willing to stand up and say no with our combined spirits, our collective intellects, and our many bodies." 

And, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Thank you to everyone involved here, to everyone who wants to contribute to make our world and reality a little bit better everyday. 

Kindly, 

Shivani 💫🌺🩷