Excited to mentor projects on
Generally around these categories but may be open to others:
- Using AI to help animals
- Fellowships
- Elite influencing
- Career services
- Incubators
- Meta-fundraising
- Connecting and convening
- Layer hens, broiler chickens, and fish in aquaculture (most numerous/intensively farmed)
- Corporate engagement (especially pressure campaigns)
- Legislative/policy work that directly improves welfare standards
- Reforming worst abuses of most numerous animals
- Accelerating tech/science solutions (e.g. alternative proteins, humane tech)
- Building the basis for bigger future reforms (e.g. movement-building in high-priority geographies)
Who I'm looking for
- Agentic - takes action quickly, makes progress between sessions, comes to sessions with questions, is responsive and reliable, doesn't need to be reminded to do tasks, and has good attention to detail (e.g., when preparing the final presentation).
- Can use AI well.
- Has enough time to make good progress on the project.
Support offered
- Shaping direction
- Helping to set realistic goals
- Facilitating connections
- Accountability
- Preparing for the final presentation
- format
- Product & entrepreneurship · Research & writing · Field-building & outreach · Project scoping
- topic
- Tools for advocates · Near-term impact
Sofia Balderson
I co-founded Hive, a global hub for effective farmed animal advocacy. Before Hive, I worked at Animal Advocacy Careers and Veganuary. I've advised animal advocacy charities on internal communications and project management, offer limited executive coaching slots for the movement, and mentor through Magnify Mentoring. I love using AI in my work and am excited about its potential for advocates and animals. I completed the Sentient Futures Fellowship and am now exploring my next venture.