Raith Barber

While I've always valued making a difference, as demonstrated by my past volunteer efforts and a non-profit leadership role, I've reached a point where I want this to be more than a secondary pursuit. My ambition is to direct my primary professional efforts into the non-profit sector, where I can apply my skills for creating significant positive change. I'm currently looking for opportunities to use my skills in a way that benefits others. Here are my skills and current accomplishments: I'm always trying to learn more and grow. In order to achieve my goals, I've had to learn finance, business management, social media marketing, business networking, high level analysis, science, philosophy, and many, many other skills. But more importantly, I've learned how important it is to not be personally stagnant. Conditioning myself to learn, grow, and improve a little bit every day is the accomplishment that has made every other one on this list possible. I've spent nearly 15 years at an organization with a non-profit arm that conducted charitable work in the communities we operated in. Most of this time was spent in management and I was able to take a leadership role in the charitable side. Overall, the career has given me a lot of experience in leadership and relationship building. I have a Master's Degree in Philosophy and a Bachelor's in Brain and Cognitive Science. These, along with my military experience as an Intelligence Analyst, have given me the tools I need to be an expert researcher, which has been essential in my ability to learn and grow my skills. My philosophical studies primarily concentrated on ethics; encompassing animal welfare, human ethics, and the emerging field of AI ethics, which emphasized Large Language Models (LLMs). I went to college in my 30s. I never took the SATs, so I had to work myself up through Community College, eventually landing in a top 10 undergraduate program in my desired field. I was awarded a tuition-free, additional year of study to pursue an independent program I designed on the ethical treatment of animals. For the past six years I've been running my own company that specializes in content creation. I've livestreamed 7000 hours, published nearly 300 videos, and wrote close to 100 articles. I've been in the top 0.1% of my field and I did it through my hunger to learn and constantly improve.