Cari Tuna is an American nonprofit businessperson. Formerly a reporter for ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', she co-founded and works for the organizations
Open Philanthropy and
Good Ventures.
Education and career
Tuna was born in Minnesota.
The eldest of three children of two doctors, she was brought up in
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...
, where she attended
Signature School
Signature School is a charter high school located in downtown Evansville, Indiana on the Main Street walkway. The school opened in 2002 as Indiana's first public charter high school. It has been consistently ranked, by a number of publications, ...
. There, she was student council president, founded an
Amnesty International chapter and was co-valedictorian.
Tuna later attended
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
where she wrote for the ''
Yale Daily News''.
After graduating with a
B.A. in
political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...
, she became a journalist for ''The Wall Street Journal''.
She currently works full time on Good Ventures, her and her husband's private foundation, as well as
Open Philanthropy, a spinoff of a collaboration between Good Ventures and
GiveWell.
Personal life
Tuna met Internet entrepreneur
Dustin Moskovitz on a blind date, and they married in 2013.
Tuna, along with her husband, is a signer of
Bill Gates and
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett ( ; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net w ...
's
Giving Pledge.
She is a prominent member of the
effective altruism community.
References
Further reading
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External links
Doing philanthropy better-
Effective Altruism Global talk with
William MacAskill
Giving away a Facebook fortune- ''Financial Times'' interview
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American journalists
21st-century philanthropists
American nonprofit businesspeople
American philanthropists
Giving Pledgers
Organization founders
People associated with effective altruism
People from Evansville, Indiana
The Wall Street Journal people
Yale College alumni
People from Minnesota