Awardees

We’ll be announcing additional 2025 Humanist Awardees in the coming weeks. Learn more about our past awardees here.

Hemant Mehta

2025 Humanist Media Award

Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and a podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago and continues to coach a nationally competitive public speaking team. He's the author of multiple books, publishes crossword puzzles for the New York Times and Slate, and was a Jeopardy! champion.

Fred Edwords

2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

Fred Edwords served eleven years (1980-1991) as the founding editor of the AHA’s Creation/Evolution journal, refuting creationism, fifteen years as AHA executive director (1984-1999), and twelve years as editor of the Humanist magazine (1994-2006). He was the first corporate president (2002-2005) of Camp Quest, Inc., the summer camp for freethinking children. He went on to direct the AHA’s semi-autonomous United Coalition of Reason for six years (2009-2014), erecting attention-grabbing billboards across the country. And he served over three years (2015-2018) as director of planned giving for the AHA’s Humanist Foundation. Fred continues as an active humanist volunteer.