Debra Sweet

Debra Sweet is the American Humanist Association’s 2012 humanist heroine and the executive director of World Can’t Wait, headquartered in New York City.

Ira Flatow, Isaac Asimov Science Award

Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday on NPR and recipient of the 2012 Isaac Asimov Science Award from the American Humanist Association.

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem is a journalist, author, and feminist leader whose books include A Thousand Indias, a guidebook for the Indian government published in 1957, Outrageous Acts and... Read More

Franz K. Baskett

Franz K. Baskett is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas and an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in... Read More

Fabian Bouthillette

Fabian Bouthillette was Gore Vidal’s assistant, “naval attaché,” and friend. He’s currently writing a book about his military service and his time with Vidal.

Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby is an author, most recently of the New York Times bestseller The Age of American Unreason, about U.S. anti-intellectualism. A former Washington... Read More

Nina Goodwine

Nina Goodwine is a formal editorial intern at the Humanist magazine. She graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in English.

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas works at the World Bank in Paris, France, and is also a freelance writer. She has degrees in economics and politics from... Read More

Jennifer Kalmanson

Jennifer Kalmanson is an AHA board member and its current vice president. After spending sixteen years as a systems engineer in the space industry,... Read More