| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Facebook username | sentienceinstitute |
| YouTube username | @sentienceinstitute2724 |
| Twitter username | @SentienceInst |
| Website | https://www.sentienceinstitute.org |
| Team page | https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/team |
| Launch date | 2017-06-01 |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience_Institute |
| Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org | 2025-04-10 |
| Donations List Website (data still preliminary) |
Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | 1 | Jacy Reese Anthis |
| 2018-01-01 | 4 | J. Mohorčich, Jacy Reese Anthis, Kelly Anthis, Kelly Witwicki |
| 2019-01-01 | 5 | J. Mohorčich, Jacy Reese Anthis, Jamie Harris, Kelly Anthis, Kelly Witwicki |
| 2020-01-01 | 3 | Jacy Reese Anthis, Jamie Harris, Kelly Anthis |
| 2021-01-01 | 4 | Ali Ladak, Jacy Reese Anthis, Jamie Harris, Kelly Anthis |
| 2022-01-01 | 5 | Ali Ladak, Jacy Reese Anthis, Jamie Harris, Janet Pauketat, Kelly Anthis |
| 2023-01-01 | 6 | Ali Ladak, Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet Pauketat, Katerina Manoli, Kelly Anthis, Michael Dello-Iacovo |
| 2024-01-01 | 7 | Ali Ladak, Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet Pauketat, Katerina Manoli, Kelly Anthis, Michael Dello-Iacovo, Spencer Case |
| 2025-01-01 | 6 | Ali Ladak, Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet Pauketat, Katerina Manoli, Kelly Anthis, Spencer Case |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Jacy Reese Anthis | |
| 2017-03-01 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Kelly Anthis, Kelly Witwicki | |
| 2017-12-01 | 7 | 4 | 0 | Diana Fleischman, J. Mohorčich, Jonas Vollmer, Kelly Witwicki | |
| 2018-08-01 | 8 | 1 | 0 | Jamie Harris | |
| 2018-11-01 | 11 | 3 | 0 | Jeff Sebo, Natalie Cargill, Oscar Horta | |
| 2018-11-22 | 8 | 0 | -3 | Jeff Sebo, Jonas Vollmer, Natalie Cargill | |
| 2019-04-01 | 9 | 1 | 0 | Kelly McNamara | |
| 2019-08-01 | 10 | 1 | 0 | Max Daniel | |
| 2019-08-05 | 6 | 0 | -4 | Diana Fleischman, J. Mohorčich, Kelly Witwicki, Max Daniel | |
| 2019-12-01 | 5 | 0 | -1 | Kelly Witwicki | |
| 2020-09-01 | 7 | 2 | 0 | Ali Ladak, J. Mohorčich | |
| 2021-02-01 | 8 | 1 | 0 | Janet Pauketat | |
| 2021-12-07 | 9 | 1 | 0 | Thomas Moynihan | |
| 2022-02-01 | 8 | 0 | -1 | Jamie Harris | |
| 2022-04-01 | 9 | 1 | 0 | Michael Dello-Iacovo | |
| 2022-04-30 | 10 | 1 | 0 | Maya Mathur | |
| 2022-12-02 | 11 | 1 | 0 | Katerina Manoli | |
| 2023-07-05 | 12 | 1 | 0 | Spencer Case | |
| 2024-03-01 | 11 | 0 | -1 | Michael Dello-Iacovo | |
| 2024-10-01 | 6 | 0 | -5 | J. Mohorčich, Kelly McNamara, Maya Mathur, Oscar Horta, Thomas Moynihan |
| Person | Title | Start date | End date | Employment type | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet Pauketat | Research Fellow | 2021-02-01 | full-time | [1], [2] | ||
| Spencer Case | Research Fellow | 2023-07-05 | [3], [2] | |||
| Ali Ladak | Researcher | 2020-09-01 | [4], [2] | |||
| Katerina Manoli | Researcher | 2022-12-02 | [5], [2] | |||
| Jacy Reese Anthis | Co-Founder | 2016-12-01 | [6], [7], [8] | |||
| Kelly Anthis | Co-Founder | 2017-03-01 | board member | [8], [9], [8] | ||
| Jamie Harris | Researcher | 2018-08-01 | 2022-02-01 | part-time | [10], [11] | |
| Kelly Witwicki | Co-Founder & Executive Director | 2017-03-01 | 2019-12-01 | [6], [9] | ||
| Michael Dello-Iacovo | Strategy Lead and Researcher | 2022-04-01 | 2024-03-01 | [12], [13] | ||
| Kelly Witwicki | Board member | 2017-12-01 | 2019-08-05 | board member | [14], [15] | |
| Natalie Cargill | Advisory Board Member | 2018-11-01 | 2018-11-22 | board member | [16], [17] | |
| Oscar Horta | Advisory Board Member | 2018-11-01 | 2024-10-01 | board member | [16], [18] | |
| Kelly McNamara | Advisory Board Member | 2019-04-01 | 2024-10-01 | advisor | [4], [19], [18] | |
| J. Mohorčich | Advisory Board Member | 2020-09-01 | 2024-10-01 | advisor | [4], [18] | |
| J. Mohorčich | Research Fellow | 2017-12-01 | 2019-08-05 | [14], [15] | ||
| Diana Fleischman | Board Member | 2017-12-01 | 2019-08-05 | board member | [14], [15] | |
| Jonas Vollmer | Board member | 2017-12-01 | 2018-11-22 | board member | [14], [17] | |
| Jeff Sebo | Advisory Board Member | 2018-11-01 | 2018-11-22 | board member | [16], [17] | |
| Max Daniel | Board member | 2019-08-01 | 2019-08-05 | board member | [15], [15] | |
| Maya Mathur | Advisory Board Member | 2022-04-30 | 2024-10-01 | advisor | [12], [18] | |
| Thomas Moynihan | Advisory Board Member | 2021-12-07 | 2024-10-01 | board member | [8], [18] |
| Name | Creation date | Description |
|---|
| Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The peculiar #metoo story of animal activist Jacy Reese | 2019-03-28 | Marc Gunther | Sentience Institute, Centre for Effective Altruism | Jacy Reese, Kelly Witwicki, Julia Wise | HR controversy | Animal welfare | Marc Gunther, a commentator on animal welfare activism and nonprofit activity, discusses the backstory and implications of the apology post [20] of animal activist Jacy Reese. He includes more discussion of the role of the Center for Effective Altruism, and links to the Google Doc [21] with answers by Kelly Witwicki providing background. Witwicki works with Reese at the Sentience Institute and is also engaged to Reese | |
| Apology | 2019-03-22 | Jacy Reese | Effective Altruism Forum | Sentience Institute, Centre for Effective Altruism | Jacy Reese | HR controversy | Animal welfare | Jacy Reese, a public figure in animal welfare advocacy and a key member of the Sentience Institute, posts an apology on the Effective Altruism Forum: "It has recently been brought to my attention that I have made people uncomfortable through my verbal and written advances. I’m deeply sorry to everyone I hurt or made uncomfortable. I intend to step back from public life and the activism communities I’ve belonged to and reflect on my mistakes further." Marc Gunther, a commentator on animal welfare activism and nonprofit activity, describes the post as follows in [22] "An 812-word statement, under the headline “Apology,” posted last week by Reese on the forum of the Centre for Effective Altruism, the global hub of the effective altruism movement." |
| Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Affected agendas | Notes |
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