Advisory Board

Chair:

Woody Kaplan - civil liberties advocate and political activist

Members:

• Robert Boston - writer and spokesperson on the Religious Right and First Amendment issues


• Ed Buckner, Ph.D. - freethought leader, author and speaker on the historical origins of secular government


• Richard Dawkins, D.Sc., FRS - evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University


• Bruce Flamm, M.D. - medical doctor and writer who exposed a fraudulent Columbia University study linking prayer with pregnancy in infertile women


• Sam Harris - author on the dangers of religion to modern society


• Christopher Hitchens - author, journalist and literary critic


• Wendy Kaminer, Esq. - author and social critic on civil liberties, religion and popular culture


• Michael Newdow, M.D. - attorney, medical doctor and litigant in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow which attempted to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance


• David Niose, Esq. - lawyer, writer and humanist activist


• Massimo Pigliucci, Ph.D. - evolutionary biologist and author / debater on the evolution - creationism controversy


• Steven Pinker, Ph.D. - psychologist, writer and Humanist Laureate


• Salman Rushdie - novelist


• Ellery Schempp, Ph.D. - litigant in Abington School District v. Schempp, the 1963 Supreme Court ruling that public school-sponsored Bible readings were unconstitutional


• Julia Sweeney - actor best known for her androgynous character Pat on "Saturday Night Live" and her critically acclaimed one-woman monologue,"God Said, Ha!"