Awardees and Speakers

Maggie Ardiente
Development Director, American Humanist Association

John Barry
Author, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

Marshall Brain
Founder,
How Stuff Works

Rob Boston
Senior Policy Analyst, Americans United

Jes Constantine
Co-Host, The Humanist Hour podcast

Brian Dixon
VP for Media and Government Relations, Population Connection

Margaret Downey
President, Freethought Society

Fred Edwords
Director, United Coalition of Reason

Sean Faircloth
Author, Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What We Can Do About It.

Barbara Forrest
Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University

Zelda Gatuskin
Activist, LGBT Humanist Council

Janet Heimlich
Author, Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Maltreatment

Sikivu Hutchinson
Author, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics and the Values War

Arthur Jackson
Author, How to Live the Good Life

Howard Katz
President, The Humanist Society

Charlotte Klasson
President, Louisiana NOW

Marty Klein
Writer, Sexual Intelligence

Raul Martinez
President, Humanist Community of Central Ohio

Sharon Moss
Alumni Director, Secular Student Alliance

Richard MacDonald
Director, Final Exit Network

Eric Nguyen
Grassroots Coordinator, American Humanist Association

David Niose
President, American Humanist Association

Anthony Pinn
Professor, Rice University

Terry Plank
Humanist Celebrant

Shelley Segal
Singer-Songwriter, Melbourne, Austrailia

Herb Silverman
President, Secular Coalition for America

Lyle Simpson
Author, Why Was I Born?

Roy Speckhardt
Executive Director, American Humanist Association

Todd Stiefel
Co-Host, The Humanist Hour podcast

Katherine Stewart
Author

Debra Sweet
Director, World Can’t Wait

Kristin Wintermute
Executive Director, The Humanist Institute