Author archive: Howie Lempel

Howie previously worked on global catastrophic risks as a program officer at Open Philanthropy Project. Before that, he went to Yale Law for two years, where he spent his summers as a public defender in Louisiana and suing prisons with poor conditions at the ACLU. He left Yale to join Open Philanthropy Project while it was being incubated at GiveWell. Howie has also worked on white collar crime at the Manhattan DA’s office and on U.S. economic policy as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution.