Katherine Paige is a former staff attorney for the American Humanist Association's Appignani Humanist Legal Center.

Beth Staas holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s in English, and taught writing at the high school and college level for twenty... Read More

Muhammad Syed is the president of Ex-Muslims of North America, a community-building and advocacy organization for ex-Muslims across the nontheist spectrum. He can be... Read More

Oriana Ivy is the author of three prize-winning chapbooks, a widely published poet and translator. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Best American... Read More

Ken Levy is a recently tenured associate professor of law at LSU Law School. In 1999 he received a PhD in philosophy from Rutgers... Read More

Cameron Cohen is one of this year’s First in the Family Humanist Scholarship awardees.He a twenty-year old from South Los Angeles and a student at... Read More

Candyce Pelfrey Kannengieser lives in Northport, New York. She has previously been published in Pithead Chapel, Black Heart Magazine, and The Long Island Quarterly.

H. Louise Messinger is a freelance writer in Boston, Massachusetts, whose passion for answering “how?” and “why?” fuels her writing about media and culture.... Read More

Marty Bankson is a semi-retired tradesman, long-time human rights champion, and humanist. He is the primary contributor to The Humanist Advocate, the newsletter of... Read More

Kelly Carlin (www.kellycarlin. com) is an author, speaker, performer, and radio host. Her memoir, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George, will be... Read More