Tackle the World’s Most Pressing Challenges

By building a community at Harvard dedicated to doing good better

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RECENT EVENTS

We are in action

Applications Open for EA Global: New York City 2025, HUEA Members to Attend

September 9, 2025

The conference will focus on the full range of causes related to effective altruism, including farmed animal welfare, global health and development, biosecurity, AI safety, and more.

Turn Conviction into Action: Fall 2025 Applications Open for Arete Fellowship and Impact Research Initiative

September 7, 2025

Join a community of thinkers and doers dedicated to solving pressing global challenges. Priority applications due in one week.

Multiple Board Positions Open for 2025-2026 HUEA Board

September 15, 2025

We are accepting applications for multiple roles on the board. This includes three pre-existing roles (Treasurer, Events Lead, Communications Lead), as well as a new role (Arete Fellowship Lead). 


OUR FOUNDATION

Effective Altruism

is about answering one simple question: how can we best improve the world?

Most of us want to improve the world.

We see suffering, injustice, and death, and feel moved to do something about it.

But figuring out what that “something” is, let alone actually doing it, can be a difficult and disheartening challenge.

HUEA aims to help the Harvard student community respond to this challenge.


OUR OBJECTIVES
 

Theory of Change

As part of the broader effective altruism movement, since 2014…

Harvard Undergraduate EA has been dedicated to building a community of students who continuously examine strategies to best improve the world and act on those insights in their own lives.

Our theory of change centers on expanding the pipeline of individuals prepared to address the world’s most pressing challenges. We aim to equip students, both in thought and in practice, to engage with these issues beginning at the undergraduate level.

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OUR NUMBERS

 

200+

Intro & In-Depth Fellowship Graduations

25+

Partner Organizations in Network

11

Years in the Running

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OUR MENTORS
 

“Effective altruism — efforts that actually help people rather than making you feel good or helping you show off — is one of the great new ideas of the 21st century.”

— Dr. Steven Pinker

“What Harvard EA does is maximally important. I wish I had a group like this when I was an undergrad.”

— Dr. Joshua Greene