Fall 2025 General Meeting
Join us for our first meeting of the quarter! Whether you’re brand-new to Effective Altruism or already involved, this is a great chance to learn about our Fall initiatives, meet other students, and enjoy some good food together.
When: Monday Week 1 (9/29) at 6:30 PM
Where: Mathematical Sciences 5137
Impact Fellowship
The EA Impact Fellowship is a 7-week program that involves ~1 hour of reading and 1 hour of discussion each week. You will dive into the ideas behind EA and connect them with practical decisions about career, impact, and global priorities. View our curriculum here!
Apply by October 3rd! You will hear back by October 5th.
Blogging and Research Group
Through workshops and peer feedback, sharpen your research and writing skills while contributing to the wider conversation about doing good.
The Blogging Group meets once a week for ~1 hour to brainstorm ideas for blog posts or personal projects, hold each other accountable, peer review, and publish and promote each others work! Examples of previous work can be found here and here.
Sign up by October 3rd! You will hear back by October 5th.
Membership
Requirements
Complete one long-term engagement with the club each quarter. You can satisfy this requirement by:
Coming to 6 weekly meetings OR
Completing a reading group OR
Completing a project / journal club / other advanced option
Have a 1-1 with a board member! This helps us understand what you want to get out of the club and how we can make it happen.
After meeting the requirements, fill out this form to confirm your membership!
Perks
1. Invitations to retreats and cross-university socials.
2. Access to 1-1 help with applications for EA conferences, career advising, internships, and research programs.
3. Eligibility to join the board.
4. Merch :)
Picnic and Frisbee
Date: Saturday, March 16 (Week 10)
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
Place: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Join us to relax and play frisbee before finals. Complementary catering from Falafel Inc. will be provided.
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
Board Game Night
Date: Saturday, March 9 (Week 9)
Time: 7 – 10 PM
Place: By RSVP
Join us for dinner and to play board games.
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
80K Advising Application Session
Date: Wednesday, February 28 (Week 8)
Time: 6:30 – 8 PM
Place: John Wooden Center, Main Conference Room
Join us to learn about 80K’s career coaching serviced and a detailed walkthrough and coworking session for the application.
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
GPI Paper Discussion
Date: Thursday, February 22 (Week 7)
Time: 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Place: Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
Join us to discuss David Thorstad’s paper ”Three Mistakes in the Moral Mathematics of Existnetial Risk” criticizing longtermist arguments for existential risk mitigation.
Fermi Estimation Competition
Date: Monday, February 12 (Week 6)
Time: 6:30 – 8 PM
Place: Student Activities Center, Conference Room 1
Join us to learn more about the art and science of making back-of-the-envelope estimates, as well as a competition to test your estimation skills and compete for some effective altruism books.
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
Picnic and Frisbee
Date: Saturday, February 10 (Week 5)
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
Place: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Join us to hang out and talk about effective altruism with complementary catering from Falafel Inc. and frisbee.
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
Tofu Tuesday
George studied the craft of tofu making under Luo Zhongda, a fifth-generation tofu master from Guizhou, China. The experience was eye-opening. Having grown up with conventional American tofu, he hadn’t realized there were 27+ other varieties! His current work involves promoting Chinese tofus that taste like cheese, fish cakes, bread, and more to Westerners. Learn more about George’s research and writing at www.brokencuisine.com.
Join us for a talk and tofu tasting event by George Stiffman! Please RSVP here for the location of the event (you will not receive the location immediately after RSVPing).
Weekly Breakfast
Join us to hang out, drink coffee, and have breakfast at the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse
General Meeting
Join us for a brief meeting introducing effective altruism, accomplishments of the effective altruism movement, and outlining the goals and planned events of Effective Altruism at UCLA. Please RSVP for the General Meeting here.
EA at UCLA Intro Talk
Join us to learn more about Effective Altruism and how to get involved this quarter. Register here!
Winter Quarter Gatheround
Gatheround is a great platform to get to know your fellow EA at UCLA members! Event attendees will be paired into 5-min breakout rooms with a list of carefully selected questions to get the conversation going. We’ll end with a gratitude game that’s sure to leave you feeling warm and fuzzy. We hope to see you there!
Board Game Night
Join us for a fun evening of board games! Add the event to your calendar here.
Choosing an Impactful Career: An Intro to Effective Altruism
Join us for an introductory talk on Effective Altruism and an info session about ways you can get involved in our club. The intro talk will be by Kuhan from Stanford Effective Altruism as they talk about the impact we can each have with our career, After Kuhan’s talk, we’ll discuss our plans for Fall Quarter and ways you can get involved!
Link: eaucla.org/zoom
Enormous Activities Fair
Come visit us at UCLA’s Enormous Activities Fair at Royce Plaza, the Sunken Gardens, and Wilson Plaza!