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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.