Information for Athena

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Basic information

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Other names Athena AI Alignment Mentorship for Women
Country United Kingdom
Website https://researchathena.org/
Team page https://researchathena.org/participants
Launch date 2023-01-01
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2026-09-07
Notes Athena is a ten-week mentorship program designed to help women develop the knowledge, research skills, professional networks, and experience needed to pursue careers in AI safety. It pairs women who are beginning or transitioning into technical and policy-focused AI safety research with established researchers. The program combines remote mentorship and weekly research seminars with an all-expenses-paid, one-week in-person retreat in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Source [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

Positions count by year

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Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2023 1 Claire Short
2024 1 Claire Short
2025 3 Isabel MacGinnitie, Yulia Volkova Claire Short
2026 3 Isabel MacGinnitie, Yulia Volkova Claire Short

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2024-01-01 1 Claire Short
2025-01-01 1 Claire Short
2026-01-01 3 Claire Short, Isabel MacGinnitie, Yulia Volkova

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2023-09-01 1 1 0 Claire Short
2025-11-01 3 2 0 Isabel MacGinnitie, Yulia Volkova

List of people (3 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Claire Short Founder, Program Director 2023-09-01 [7]
Isabel MacGinnitie Research Fellow 2025-11-01 [8]
Yulia Volkova AI Safety Research Fellow 2025-11-01 [9]

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