Hi everyone, my name is Yewande Jinadu. I am Nigerian, currently completing an MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at LSE, and I have spent the last decade working across HR, career coaching, youth employability and social entrepreneurship.
I became interested in effective altruism after reading Doing Good Better, when it was introduced to me during my Social Innovation Design Class. What stayed with me was the challenge to move beyond good intentions and ask harder questions about impact: What actually works? Where can limited resources do the most good? What are the opportunity costs of the interventions we keep choosing? As someone who has worked in the social impact space for a while, the book has made me rethink some of my assumptions about what I should prioritise, what I should stop doing, and how to be more rigorous about measuring good.
The causes I currently work on are Youth Unemployment, Employability, Inclusive Hiring and Entrepreneurship, especially in the Nigerian/African context. In 2019, I founded CareerLife Global, a social enterprise focused on helping young people and women access skills, confidence, networks and better economic opportunities. Through this work, I have seen how unemployment is not only an income problem, but also a dignity, confidence, information and labour market access problem.
At the moment, I am particularly interested in how employment-focused social enterprises can become more effective and sustainable, especially when trying to serve both jobseekers and employers. I am also thinking a lot about how AI, data and better evidence can improve the movement from training to actual placement, rather than stopping at “we trained people” as the impact story.
I am still new to EA as a community, so I am here to learn, ask better questions and engage with people thinking seriously about global health and development, Economic mobility, Social entrepreneurship, Labour markets, Impact measurement and AI for social good.
A few fun facts: My first degree was in Chemical and Polymer Engineering but i never practiced.
Looking forward to learning from this community and connecting with people.
Question: I am in London till September when I round up my program and I would be returning back to Nigeria(my country). I tried joining the EA Forum in Lagos on the Slack channel but I was not allowed to because I think I need to be part of the overall slack channel. How can i join the slack community, I would like to meet other people while I am in London and when I eventually go back home.
Hi everyone, my name is Yewande Jinadu. I am Nigerian, currently completing an MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at LSE, and I have spent the last decade working across HR, career coaching, youth employability and social entrepreneurship.
I became interested in effective altruism after reading Doing Good Better, when it was introduced to me during my Social Innovation Design Class. What stayed with me was the challenge to move beyond good intentions and ask harder questions about impact: What actually works? Where can limited resources do the most good? What are the opportunity costs of the interventions we keep choosing? As someone who has worked in the social impact space for a while, the book has made me rethink some of my assumptions about what I should prioritise, what I should stop doing, and how to be more rigorous about measuring good.
The causes I currently work on are Youth Unemployment, Employability, Inclusive Hiring and Entrepreneurship, especially in the Nigerian/African context. In 2019, I founded CareerLife Global, a social enterprise focused on helping young people and women access skills, confidence, networks and better economic opportunities. Through this work, I have seen how unemployment is not only an income problem, but also a dignity, confidence, information and labour market access problem.
At the moment, I am particularly interested in how employment-focused social enterprises can become more effective and sustainable, especially when trying to serve both jobseekers and employers. I am also thinking a lot about how AI, data and better evidence can improve the movement from training to actual placement, rather than stopping at “we trained people” as the impact story.
I am still new to EA as a community, so I am here to learn, ask better questions and engage with people thinking seriously about global health and development, Economic mobility, Social entrepreneurship, Labour markets, Impact measurement and AI for social good.
A few fun facts: My first degree was in Chemical and Polymer Engineering but i never practiced.
Looking forward to learning from this community and connecting with people.
Question: I am in London till September when I round up my program and I would be returning back to Nigeria(my country). I tried joining the EA Forum in Lagos on the Slack channel but I was not allowed to because I think I need to be part of the overall slack channel. How can i join the slack community, I would like to meet other people while I am in London and when I eventually go back home.