Marka Ellertson

Marka Ellertson

Marka Ellertson portrait
  • House: Dunster
  • Concentration: Philosophy, with a secondary in Mind, Brain, Behavior
  • Other concentrations considered: Something in the life sciences such as Human Evolutionary Biology, Government, Sociology
  • Courses taken: Inequality, Historical Injustice, Philosophy of Dissent (Phil 97 tutorial), Human Ethics, The True and the Good, Ethics and Climate Change
  • Thesis: Planning on writing a thesis exploring our relationship to future generations, such as what is required of us today to prevent harm in the far future.
  • Anything else: I’m also involved in the EL Safra Center for Ethics as an undergraduate fellow. I’m interested in thinking about how we can do good in the world (such as in ethics courses) and then actually trying to do it (often as part of the Effective Altruism community).