Thomas W. Clark

Thomas W. Clark is director of the Center for Naturalism and author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses.
Joyce Carol Oates, 2007 Humanist of the Year

Joyce Carol Oates is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, poet, dramatist, and reviewer. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton... Read More
Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson is a world authority on biodiversity and the evolution of social behavior. He is Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary... Read More
Pat Willis

Patricia Willis has a doctorate in Women's Studies and Humanistic Studies. She is a feminist activist and academic working on issues of women's rights,... Read More
Jennifer Bardi

Jennifer Bardi is the former editor in chief of the Humanist and former deputy director of the American Humanist Association.
Carlos Bertha

Carlos Bertha, Ph.D., is a faculty member of the Philosophy Department at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. He is currently volunteering... Read More
Mary Garden

Mary Garden is a freelance journalist who lives in Queensland, Australia. She is the author of The Serpent Rising––A Journey of Spiritual Seduction. For... Read More
Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg is a former senior writer at Salon.com whose work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Observer, the UK Guardian,... Read More
Christopher Hitchens

James Croft

James Croft is the outreach director of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, a large humanist congregation. He was raised on Shakespeare, Sagan, and... Read More