Ed Buckner – AAA 2013 National Convention
http://vimeo.com/75159034 Ed Buckner received his B.A. from Rice University in 1967 and his M. Ed. and Ph.D. from Georgia State University. He has edited Freethought Press books by Massimo Pigliucci, Keith Parsons, Carol Faulkenberry, and Edwin Kagin. With his wife Diane, he co-edited freethinker and retired FBI agent Oliver G. Halle’s Taking the Harder Right. […]
David Niose – AAA 2013 National Convention
http://vimeo.com/75264286 David Niose is the president of the Secular Coalition for America, an advocacy group for non-theistic viewpoints in the United States. From 2009 to 2012 he also served as president of the American Humanist Association. Niose advocates for an identity-oriented approach to secular activism to raise awareness of the secular demographic in American society. […]
Ayana Watson – AAA 2013 National Convention
http://vimeo.com/75159033 Ayanna Watson is the founder of Black Atheists of America, Inc. (BAAm). BAAm is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap between atheism and the black community. The organization has been successful in bringing together black atheists and combating the common misconception of solidarity among black atheists. With BAAm, Watson has also brought […]
Andy Thompson – AAA 2013 National Convention
http://vimeo.com/75159032 J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD (Andy), is a Trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and a staff psychiatrist for Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Virginia Student Health Center, as well as the University of Virginia’s Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. Thomson also has his own […]
Paula Apsell – AAA 2013 National Convention
Paula Apsell is arguably the most influential person in the area of science education when it comes to the country’s general public. In addition to overseeing the production of NOVA documentaries and miniseries for television, she has directed the series’ diversification into other media-most notably online, where NOVA is the most-visited site on PBS.org. NOVA […]
Steven Pinker – AAA 2013 National Convention
Presentation of the Richard Dawkins Award. Dr. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. Currently Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Pinker has also taught at Stanford and MIT. His research on visual cognition and the psychology […]