Ron Millar is the coordinator of the Center for Freethought Equality and the Freethought Equality Fund PAC (political action committee). He has spent more than thirty years in the Washington, DC, area working for nonprofit education and... Read More

Charles “Chuck” Debrovner, MD, is a board member of The Humanist Institute, the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and Global Bioethics Initiative, as well as past president of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Chuck was the former chair... Read More

The early-twentieth-century American writer and historian James Truslow Adams once said, “There are two educations: one to show us how to make a living and the other how to live.” The Humanist Institute (THI) is... Read More

I believe humanism has the potential to change the world. When I was studying for my doctorate and traveling the United States giving presentations on humanism, I wanted to find a way to make humanist leadership... Read More

It’s been thirty-three years since I first stepped into the New York Society for Ethical Culture building on Central Park West and Sixty-Fourth Street. I had no idea on that day how joining the first... Read More

Upon retirement, I was eager to put my time to use in a way that helped people. My education was in biology and I have a particular interest in how science informs us about many... Read More

I became an atheist on my own, somewhat of an antitheist rejecting my religious background, and I wanted to find more positive perspectives of nontheism. Before attending The Humanist Institute (THI), I had a hard... Read More