Please welcome the Appignani Humanist Legal Center’s new Staff Attorney, Ali Huiskens! What is your educational and work background? Before joining the American Humanist Association, I represented employees in complex workplace disputes involving discrimination, retaliation,... Read More

HumanistsMN is one of AHA’s most active chapters. In many ways, their board is a model for humanist organizers nationwide. In this interview from late February, chapter president Paul Rupp speaks to the unique community... Read More

In the ongoing debates about public education, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and public health care, the question keeps coming up: Why must the government maintain its neutrality on religion? For humanists, this question is no... Read More

Please welcome the Center for Freethought Equality’s new Policy Manager, Galina Varchena! What is your educational and work background? My academic path started at the College of William & Mary, where I studied philosophy and... Read More

In December 2025, Mel Curth, a University of Oklahoma instructor, was placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a psychology assignment because her essay cited the Bible to... Read More

January was Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month. On Saturday, January 31st, the Women’s Leadership Project hosted the premier of my short film "Alpha Centauri," which centers a young freethinking Black woman foster care protagonist’s... Read More

This year’s Women’s Leadership Project (WLP)-sponsored Black LGBTQIA+ Institute was truly one to remember. Not only because it was made possible by the generous grant of $1,000 given to us by the American Humanist Association,... Read More