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About Let's Phi

Let’s Phi helps philosophers build careers outside academia. Since summer 2020 we have run three conferences and dozens of workshops, collected the stories of philosophers who made the leap, and grown a newsletter community of 1,800+.

The team
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Let’s Phi was built by a volunteer team of philosophers who care about what comes after the degree. Today it is maintained by Konrad — and it keeps growing, story by story.

Konrad Urban
Co-Founder & Maintainer
Runs Peanut

Alumni
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Let’s Phi would not exist without the volunteers who ran it through the conference years. Thank you.

Kim Kopec
Co-Founder
Co-founded Let’s Phi
Ludovica Adamo
Operations
Ran operations and organised many of our workshops
Ronja Griep
Conferences
Co-organised our conferences
Joshua Bucheli
Head of Community Events
Organised our 2021 talk series
Ismael Kherroubi García
Writer & Content Creator
Wrote for the newsletter
Jennifer Waters
Writer & Content Creator
Wrote for the newsletter
Mathilde Léon
Writer & Researcher
Wrote for the newsletter
Tiana-marie Blassingale
Communications
Ran communications

What members say
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In their own words:

"Let's Phi has been a beacon of encouragement and a source of support for me, as I look to transition out of academia. After the event with Kleros, I applied for and won the Kleros Justice Fellowship. Thanks for organising these events!"

Paul Poenicke — community member

"Joining Let's Phi's event with Federico ['The Future of Law-Tech', June 2022] helped me find my career path by showing the intersection among Philosophy, Economics and Web3. I connected with Federico afterwards and was fortunate enough to be offered an internship at his firm. Throughout the summer I have been learning so much about Web3 which would never have happened if it wasn't for Let's Phi's valuable speaker events."

Andy Chan — community member

"When I started as head of community management at Let's Phi two years ago, I had no idea where my degree in philosophy would take me. Let's Phi gave me the opportunity to build on my skillset, expand my network, and have the conversations I needed to have to eventually successfully make the transition out of academic philosophy and into a job that I now love and in which I am thriving! I can say with total honesty that Let's Phi was an integral part of this journey and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone who is interested in bringing their philosophical skillset outside of the university."

"Getting the opportunity to come back one year down the line and share my journey with current Phiers was an absolute pleasure and I very much look forward to continuing to attend future events and to seeing where the Let's Phi adventure takes our growing community — LetsPhi4Ever!"

Joshua Bucheli — former Head of Community, now in cybersecurity recruitment

Get involved
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Let’s Phi is deliberately run lean these days, but there are still good ways in. If you built a career outside academia, we’d love to interview you: one relaxed conversation, and we turn it into a story for the library and the newsletter. If you want to bring Let’s Phi to your university, we’ll help you set it up. And if you want to write for the newsletter, or help in a way we haven’t thought of, tell us that too.

For any of these, reach out to Konrad on LinkedIn.

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