Dr. Sarah Hill is an award-winning research psychologist and professor with expertise in women, health, and sexual psychology. At the intersection of evolutionary biology, social psychology, and neuroscience, Dr. Hill’s research is aimed at understanding the role that hormones, the immune system, and the environment play in relationship- and health- behaviors, especially in women. Dr. Hill’s research laboratories are located in the Department of Psychology at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Sarah E Hill, Author "How The Pill Changes Everything"
Dr. Hector Garcia, Author "Sex, Power & Partisanship"
Dr. Hector Garcia, evolutionary psychologist and author of Sex, Power, and Partisanship --- How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide. Drawing on evidence from chimpanzee behavior, the bones and relics of stone age societies, DNA, contemporary hunter-gatherer communities, and pre-modern religious texts, Dr. Garcia explains how modern-day political affiliations reflect gender-based strategies for survival and reproductive success. He also explains the deep roots of our attitudes toward leadership, the social safety net, taxation, war, peace, religion, race, immigration, social equality, marriage and adultery.
Frank McAndrew is the Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology at Knox College where he twice received the Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching as well as the Caterpillar Faculty Achievement Award. He was also nominated for the prestigious CASE U.S. Professor of the Year Award. McAndrew's book on "Environmental Psychology" (1993) has been translated into several languages and is recognized as a classic text in the history of that discipline.
Dr. Frank McAndrew, Author" Environmental Psychology"
Dr. Phil Zuckerman, Sociologist & Author
Professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He specializes in the sociology of substantial secularity and is the author of eight books, including Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society (2023) What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life (2019).
Her field of research includes the study of disgust, human sexuality, eugenics, and hormones and behaviour. She is also involved in the natalism, effective altruism, animal welfare, and feminism movements.
Dr. Diana Fleischman, Evolutionary Psychologist
Annie Laurie Gaylor, Author & Activist
Co-Founder Freedom From Religion Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin, 1976, when she was a college student, with her mother Anne Nicol Gaylor. Annie Laurie first joined FFRF’s staff in 1985, and served as editor of Freethought Today until 2004. Freethought Today is the only freethought newspaper in the United States, and is published ten times year by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Foundation incorporated as a national nonprofit educational organization with two purposes in 1978 under the leadership of Anne Nicol Gaylor and works to protect the constitutional principle of state/church separation and to educate about nontheism.
Know for his research and writings about biological aspects of behavior in nonhuman primates and humans. He is currently a professor of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, and Neurobiology at The University of Chicago.
Dr. Dario Maestripieri, Behavioral Biologist
Dr. Sabrina Markese, Family Physician
Board certified Physician with demonstrated history in full-spectrum Family Medicine. Experienced in both outpatient and inpatient care, with current focus on outpatient medicine. Highly skilled and experienced in women’s health and procedural contraceptive care, mental health, preventative medicine, insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from University of Kansas School of Medicine.
American activist, author, and speaker on the subject of atheism. He is the creator and host of The Thinking Atheist online community, podcast, and YouTube channel, as well as the author of four self-published books. Prior to his atheist activism, he was a fundamentalist Christian and had a ten-year career as a Christian radio host.
Seth Andrews, Author & Activist
Alesha Doan, Professor School of Public Affairs & Administration, Professor Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Associate Professor at the University of Kansas and holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Affairs & Administration and the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department. Professor Doan’s interdisciplinary research is guided by her broader interests in public policy, organizations and gender/social equity, with a more specialized focus on reproductive policies. Her publications include articles in a variety of journals as well as three books: Opposition and Intimidation: The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment (University of Michigan Press 2007), The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education, (co-authored, Praeger 2008), and Abortion Regret: The New Attack on Reproductive Freedom, (co-authored, Praeger 2019).
Location Pastor of Spring Hill, Kansas United Methodist Church.
Pastor Angie McCarty, Church of the Resurrection
American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and he is cofounder of The Clergy Project.
Dan Barker, Author & Activist
David W. Congdon is a senior editor at the University Press of Kansas & instructor at the University of Kansas and McCormick Theological Seminary. He is the author of "Who Is A True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture.
Dr. David Congdon, Author and Senior Editor
University Press of Kansas.
Dr. Betsy Wickstrum is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Springfield, She received her medical degree from University of Nebraska College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) specialize in the female reproductive system and care for women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
Betsy Wickstrom, MD
Speciality: Maternal and Fetal Health.
Dr. Andrew Hartman is the Distinguished Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in U.S. history, as well as courses in the philosophy of history, historiography, and pedagogy. Professor Hartman received his Ph.D. in History from the George Washington University in 2006.
Dr. Andrew Hartman
Professor of History at Illinois State University.
Robb Ryerse spent 10 years pastoring churches in New York City, the suburbs of Boston, and Central Michigan. He then moved to Arkansas and launched the Vintage Fellowship, a church that welcomes LGBT and folks from all backgrounds, creeds and colors. He is also the author of three books. "The Gospel According to Donald Trump", "Running for Our Lives: A Story of Faith, Politics and the Common Good", and "Fundamorphosis: How I Left Fundamentalism But Didn’t Lose My Faith".
Robb Ryerse, Political Organizer: Vote Common Good.
Dr. Nick Syrett, Chair & Professor, Gender & Women's Studies. University of Wisconsin.
Nicholas L. Syrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. He is also coeditor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. He holds an AB in Women’s and Gender Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Syrett studies gender, sexuality, age, and childhood in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. He is a coeditor of Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present (NYU Press, 2015) and the author of four books: "The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities" (North Carolina, 2009), "American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States" (North Carolina, 2016), "An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton" (Chicago, 2021), and most recently "The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime"