I’m James Özden – currently working as a philanthropic grantmaker (at Mobius) trying to improve our food system such that it causes less harm to the planet, animals and people. I’m interested in many things: understanding successful social movements, mitigating climate change, reducing the suffering of animals, effective altruism and productivity.
Before my current grantmaking role, I founded Social Change Lab, an organisation conducting and disseminating social movement research to help tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Before that, I spent 2.5 years building strong grassroots animal and climate justice movements at Animal Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion. I’ve been involved in a range of things: Strategy design, campaigns, fundraising, communications and operations.
You can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter or reach me via email.
Some other great projects I’m involved with:
- Fundraising for Cellular Agriculture UK, an organisation supporting the growth of a larger and more engaged cellular agriculture community in the UK
- I co-host a podcast, How I Learned To Love Shrimp, that interviews inspiring activists, campaigners, entrepreneurs and more on effective ways to help animals, and build the animal advocacy movement.
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