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
• 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
• Daniel Dennett, D.Phil. - philosopher whose research intersects with cognitive science and evolutionary biology
• Bruce Flamm, M.D. - medical doctor and writer who exposed a fraudulent Columbia University study linking prayer with pregnancy in infertile women
• Sam Harris, PhD - author, neuroscientist, and CEO of Project Reason
  
• Jeff Hawkins - entrepreneur and inventor
• Christopher Hitchens* - author, journalist and literary critic
• Susan Jacoby - author and independent scholar
• Wendy Kaminer - 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
• 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
• Todd Stiefel - founder and president of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation.
  
• Julia Sweeney - actor best known for her androgynous character Pat on "Saturday Night Live" and her critically acclaimed one-woman monologue, "God Said, Ha!"

*In memoriam.