Dale McGowan is editor and co-author of Raising Freethinkers (2009) and Parenting Beyond Belief (2007) and the anthology Voices of Unbelief (2011), and author of Atheism for Dummies (2013) and In Faith and in Doubt (2014). He currently serves as founding executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a non-profit organization focusing, encouraging, and demonstrating humanist generosity and volunteerism. Dale holds degrees in physical anthropology and music from UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. In 2008, he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. Pinn is founding director of Rice’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is the author/editor of 30 books including, African American Humanist Principles (2004); By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (2001); The End of God Talk (2012) and Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist (2014). In 1999 he received the African American Humanist Award from the Council for Secular Humanism, and in 2006 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Dale McGowan is editor and co-author of Raising Freethinkers (2009) and Parenting Beyond Belief (2007) and the anthology Voices of Unbelief (2011), and author of Atheism for Dummies (2013) and In Faith and in Doubt (2014). He currently serves as founding executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a non-profit organization focusing, encouraging, and demonstrating humanist generosity and volunteerism. Dale holds degrees in physical anthropology and music from UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. In 2008, he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. Pinn is founding director of Rice’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is the author/editor of 30 books including, African American Humanist Principles (2004); By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (2001); The End of God Talk (2012) and Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist (2014). In 1999 he received the African American Humanist Award from the Council for Secular Humanism, and in 2006 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Jennifer Michael Hecht earned a PhD in the history of science from Columbia University. Her collections of poetry include the highly praised The Next Ancient World (2001)—which won the Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize in Poetry, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and ForeWord Review’s Poetry Book of the Year Award—and Funny (2005), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Known for her wit and erudition, Hecht’s poetry frequently draws on her work as an intellectual historian. The Next Ancient World mixes contemporary and ancient worldviews, histories, myths, and ideas, and Funny explores the implications of the human love of humor and jokes. Hecht’s prose has also been widely praised for the breadth of its scholarship. Her books include Doubt: A History (2003); The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France (2003), which won the prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society; and The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn’t Working Today (2008).

Dale McGowan is editor and co-author of Raising Freethinkers (2009) and Parenting Beyond Belief (2007) and the anthology Voices of Unbelief (2011), and author of Atheism for Dummies (2013) and In Faith and in Doubt (2014). He currently serves as founding executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a non-profit organization focusing, encouraging, and demonstrating humanist generosity and volunteerism. Dale holds degrees in physical anthropology and music from UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. In 2008, he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Chris Stedman is Coordinator of Humanist Life at Yale University and former Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University. He received his Master’s in Religion (Pastoral Care and Counseling) from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Additionally, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion
from Augsburg College in Minnesota. Stedman is the Emeritus Managing Director of State of Formation at the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, a website for emerging religious and ethical thinkers. He writes for Huffington Post Gay Voices, Huffington Post Religion, The Washington Post On Faith, Religion Dispatches, Relevant, and other publications on issues relating to atheism and interfaith dialogue. Most recently, he wrote a book on his experiences as an atheist and interfaith activist called Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious (2012).

Greg M. Epstein serves as the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, and is author of the New York Times bestselling book, Good without God:
What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. He currently serves as Vice President of the 36-member corps Harvard Chaplains. In 2005 Greg received ordination as a Humanist Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, where he studied in Jerusalem and Michigan for five years. He holds a BA (Religion and Chinese) and an MA (Judaic Studies) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School. Greg’s work has been featured by the New York Times; CBS News; ABC World News with Diane Sawyer; ABC News Network; Al Jazeera; Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and numerous other programs on National Public Radio; BBC Radio; USA Today; Newsweek; US News and World Report; The Boston Globe, and many more.

Director of the American Humanist Association’s Kochhar Humanist Education Center

Anne Klaeysen, in addition to her work at New York Society of Ethical Culture, was the first Humanist Chaplain at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY and
now serves the Barnard College community at Columbia University as Humanist Religious Life Advisor. A graduate of the Humanist Institute, she is now co-Dean of the Institute. Klaeysen was Leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island from 2002 to 2008. She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Hebrew Union College, Master’s degrees in Business Administration from New York University and in German from the State University of New York at Albany, and studied at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany. Klaeysen represents the American Ethical Union on the Board of Governors of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and is an active participant in Empire State Pride in the Pulpit, New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, the Interfaith Peace Alliance, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Susan Rose was active in the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, serving as President from 1988–1990. She served on the National Board of the American
Ethical Union for five years and the National Membership Committee for over ten years. Susan was certified as an Ethical Culture Leader in 1999 and has
served the Ethical Movement in various capacities, including Dean of the Leadership Training Program. Susan is also the Dean of the American Ethical Union Leadership Training Program and serves on the Assembly Planning Committee of the American Ethical Union. She serves on the Humanist Institute Board.

Andrew Copson is Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association. His writing on humanist and secularist issues has appeared in The Guardian, The
Independent, The Times and New Statesman as well as in various journals and he has represented the BHA and Humanism extensively on television
news on BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, as well as on television programs such as Newsnight, The Daily Politics, Sunday Morning Live and The Big Questions. He has also appeared on radio programs from Today, You and Yours, Sunday, The World Tonight, The World at One, The Last Word and Beyond Belief on the BBC, to local and national commercial radio stations.
He is a former director of the European Humanist Federation (EHF) and
is currently First Vice-President of the International Humanist and Ethical
Union (IHEU), where he leads on Communications. Andrew studied Classics
and Ancient and Modern History at the University of Oxford.

Henk Manschot, a member of the University for Humanist Studies faculty, is co-founder and Director of Kosmopolis, the Humanist Institute for Global
Ethics and World Citizenship of the University for Humanistics in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Kosmopolis is dedicated to engaging in interdisciplinary research, teaching, training and networking and seeks to link questions of personal meaning and spirituality with social and political issues of human and sustainable development worldwide. His current research focuses on interconnections between human and sustainable development and on cosmo-political education. He is Vice-Chairman/Secretary of the Asia-Europe Foundation CEDESD
and Head of the sector Dialogues, Leadership and Values. He is also
Chairman of the Encounter of World Views Foundation. Manschot is a Graduate
of the Sorbonne University in Paris, and he received his PhD from the
Department of Philosophy of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Caroline Šuranský is on faculty at the University for Humanist Studies (Utrecht). She studied philosophy of education at the University of Utrecht
and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1998 she was awarded a grant to study the historical and political education ties between the Netherlands and South Africa at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa. She worked from 1988 to 1998 at the same university as a lecturer in Curriculum
Studies and coordinator of the Master’s program in “Teacher Education.” She is a Fellow of Cosmopolis (Humanist Institute for Global Ethics and World Citizenship) and co-founder and co-coordinator of the annual Summer School on Human Development and Human Rights, an initiative in collaboration with the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS).

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. Pinn is founding director of Rice’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is the author/editor of 30 books including, African American Humanist Principles (2004); By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (2001); The End of God Talk (2012) and Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist (2014). In 1999 he received the African American Humanist Award from the Council for Secular Humanism, and in 2006 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Katrina Scott received her Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and is the Oncology Chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she
provides spiritual support to patients, family and staff. She is the author of several articles on the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care
(NCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines Domain 5: “Spiritual, Religious and Existential Aspects for Care” (2008) and is dedicated to promoting a multidisciplinary team approach to end-of-life care. Endorsed by the American Ethical Union (Ethical Culture) for Health Care Chaplaincy, Katrina is an Officiant of the Ethical Society of Boston and Board Certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains.

Dale McGowan is editor and co-author of Raising Freethinkers (2009) and Parenting Beyond Belief (2007) and the anthology Voices of Unbelief (2011), and author of Atheism for Dummies (2013) and In Faith and in Doubt (2014). He currently serves as founding executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a non-profit organization focusing, encouraging, and demonstrating humanist generosity and volunteerism. Dale holds degrees in physical anthropology and music from UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. In 2008, he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. Pinn is founding director of Rice’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is the author/editor of 30 books including, African American Humanist Principles (2004); By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (2001); The End of God Talk (2012) and Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist (2014). In 1999 he received the African American Humanist Award from the Council for Secular Humanism, and in 2006 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Dale McGowan is editor and co-author of Raising Freethinkers (2009) and Parenting Beyond Belief (2007) and the anthology Voices of Unbelief (2011), and author of Atheism for Dummies (2013) and In Faith and in Doubt (2014). He currently serves as founding executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a non-profit organization focusing, encouraging, and demonstrating humanist generosity and volunteerism. Dale holds degrees in physical anthropology and music from UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. In 2008, he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. Pinn is founding director of Rice’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is the author/editor of 30 books including, African American Humanist Principles (2004); By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (2001); The End of God Talk (2012) and Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist (2014). In 1999 he received the African American Humanist Award from the Council for Secular Humanism, and in 2006 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.