Cari Tuna
Cari Tuna
Cari Tuna is a journalist and co-founde r of Good Ventures which oversees the work of Open Philanthropy Project decisions, which she is the project manager of. She is the wife of Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz.
Background
Cari Tuna grew up the eldest of three children in Evansville, Indiana to two doctors.
Cari Tuna is a graduate of Signature High and was a parishioner at Aldersgate United Methodist Church on the east side of Evensville. She was valedictorian along with another student, and student council president to which she ran unopposed and founded her school’s Amnesty International chapter.
Education
She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political science. While at Yale, she also a writer and editor of Yale Daily News.
Career
Tuna committed herself to contributing writing to Evansville Courier & Press, the newspaper of her hometown. She later interned at the Minneapolis StarTribune. She had an interest in becoming a foreign correspondent someday.
She became a reporter for the The Wall Street Journal right after Yale in 2008 in San Francisco Bay Area. She worked for them nearly 3 years covering topics ranging from Corporate management, the economy in California, and enterprise technology.
While at The Wall Street Journal, one of her colleagues set her up with a date with Moskovitz in 2009. It was allegedly a blind date. She began dating him before Facebook IPO it dawned her that he would be very rich someday - she wasn't as familiar with the tech world.
In the press, Moskovitz would name his partner in relation to the ventures he had planned concerning how to use his capital for the rest of the world.
Moskovitz expressed: "It’s pooled up around us right now, but it belongs to the world.
We intend not to have much when we die"
Philanthropy
The couple focus on giving with the philosophy of "effective altruism" which is facts & reason over emotional draws to make the most difference with the money.
With his $8.1 billion in net worth, Moskovitz and Tuna became the youngest couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, which commits billionaires to giving away most of their wealth in the form of philanthropy.
Their non-profit organization is called, Good Ventures which is now a joint-project with Open Philanthropy Project, which Tuna is now the director of. The couple have focused on donating to research that may prevent asteroids from slamming into the Earth, to curing iodine deficiencies in the Third World and repairing the environment. The two make philanthropy into a business endeavor, and have traveled the world, initiated hundreds and interviews and have classified their priorities in four buckets: U.S. policy, global catastrophic risks, international aid and science. They plan to announce their first efforts in 2015, although they have been giving away 61 grants of $45 million through their foundation.
Cari sits on the Board of Directors of GiveWell, a leading independent nonprofit charity evaluator. GiveWell finds outstanding giving opportunities and publishes the full details of its analysis to help donors decide where to give.
the Hillary Victory Fund, the DSCC, and the DCCC
the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund
For Our Future PAC
MoveOn.org Political Action
Color Of Change PAC
several nonpartisan voter registration and GOTV efforts.
Moskovitz wrote:
"We may be criticized by some for taking this action and there will be theories projected onto our reasons — but those who know us best will see the sincerity of our intentions, and can attest that the thoughts above represent the full scope of our motivations.
We offer them humbly, and with the deepest love for America, and for the world."