About us
Probably Good is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people build careers that are good for them and good for the world. We provide tools, ideas, and direct support to empower more people to make a positive impact through their work.
Our Principles
Which careers are probably good?
There are a lot of ways you could help improve the world, but using your career to do good may be your best bet. Our expert-backed research & resources are freely available to help you navigate career decisions and make a real difference.
Optimizing for Impact
We strive to use our limited time and resources to achieve as much impact as we can.
Worldview Diversification
We aim to provide information and advice that can be easily adapted according to your own values, priorities and views.
Experimental Approach
We regard everything we do as an experiment and would love to hear from you in order to improve.
Our Team
Dylan Balfour
Researcher
Dylan is pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he works in global priorities research. He has written on ethics and longtermism, and has received a global priorities fellowship from the Forethought Foundation.
Thane Fowler
Operations Lead
Thane studied Psychology and Queer Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has since held a variety of positions in the US, Botswana, and Mexico. Before joining Probably Good he worked in administration and program coordination in the education sector.
Anna Beth Lane
Writer
Anna Beth is a writer and editor interested in distilling complex ideas into accessible forms. Before joining Probably Good, she worked in nonprofit communications and copywriting. She holds a B.A. in creative writing with a minor in social anthropology from the University of Arkansas.
Itamar Shatz
Executive Director
Itamar’s writing about applied psychology and philosophy is read by over a million people each year, and linked from places like The NY Times and TechCrunch. He has a PhD from Cambridge University, where he is an affiliated researcher and teaches quantitative research methods.
Vaishnav Sunil
1:1 Advising Lead
Vaishnav manages Probably Good’s 1-on-1 career advising service and is part of MIT’s Sculpting Evolution group, working on global catastrophic biorisk reduction. He holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Our Board of Directors
Omer Nevo
Co-founder and former CEO of Probably good, Omer is co-founder and CTO of Pattern Labs, a firm dedicated to protecting AI and other advanced technology from theft and misuse. He previously led research efforts at Google to predict and detect wildfires. Before Google, he co-founded and served as the CEO of Neowize, a YC-backed startup, which was acquired by Oddity. He is also a co-founder and head of the board at Effective Altruism Israel.
Sella Nevo
Co-founder and former Head of Research of Probably Good, Sella is Head of the Meselson Center at the RAND Corporation, dedicated to reducing risks from biological threats and emerging technologies. He previously led the Karmel group at Google, using machine learning to tackle global humanitarian problems, resulting in work such as the Google Flood Forecasting Initiative. He is also a Venture Partner at Firstime VC advising on impact-driven investments and is on the advisory board of ALLFED.
Anna Christina Thorsheim
Anna Christina is co-founder and Executive Director of Family Empowerment Media (FEM), a nonprofit working to close information gaps related to contraceptives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before starting FEM, she co-founded a health-tech startup developing VR-based phobia treatment and worked as Head of PR at a startup incubator for for-profits aiming to achieve SDGs. She studied Industrial Economics and Technology Management at NTNU.
Our Advisory Board
Michelle Hutchinson
Michelle holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, where her thesis was on global priorities research. While completing that, she did the operational set-up of the Centre for Effective Altruism and then became Executive Director of Giving What We Can. She is currently the Director of the One-on-one Programme at 80,000 Hours.
Joey Savoie
Joey is the co-founder of Charity Entrepreneurship – a research and training program that incubates high-impact charities. Previously, Joey co-founded Charity Science, a meta-organization increasing the amount of counterfactual funding going to high impact charities, and Charity Science Health, a nonprofit that increases vaccination rates in India using mobile phones and behavioural nudges.
Julia Wise
Julia serves as a contact person for the effective altruism community and helps local and online groups support their members. She served on the board of GiveWell from 2015-2024 and was president of Giving What We Can from 2017-2020. She writes about effective altruism at Giving Gladly.
