Speakers
The Thinking Atheist
Seth Andrews
Seth Andrews is a former evangelical and Christian broadcaster who now hosts The Thinking Atheist…one of the most popular podcasts and online atheist communities in the world. The Thinking Atheist is not a person. It is an icon encouraging all to reject faith and pursue reason and evidence.
Seth has authored five books, including his latest offering, “Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot.” He also hosts a second podcast, "True Stories with Seth Andrews."
With a mix of humor and heart, Seth Andrews has spoken for audiences large and small in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and Australia about his former faith, the promotion of science and skepticism, the importance of Humanism in this often crazy world, and why we should all pursue a personal relationship with reality.
Sam McGuire
American Atheists
Sam McGuire has a varied background in counseling, education, event planning, and volunteer management. As American Atheists’ National Field Director, she works with local grassroots activists, volunteers, and affiliates to help them engage on emerging local civil rights issues, advocate for state-level legislation, and build thriving communities.
Sam became involved in secular organizing and activism following the 2012 Reason Rally, first becoming a founding member of the Southern Maryland Chapter of the Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH) and later President of the regional organization. Sam has volunteered for the American Humanist Association, Camp Quest, and the Secular Coalition for America. In 2016, she was the volunteer coordinator for over 200 volunteers for Reason Rally and helped coordinate on-site logistics. She was elected to the Board of Directors and as President of the Reason Rally Coalition.
Sam previously served as a volunteer regional director for American Atheists overseeing local activism in the Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland area, earning her the Atheist Activist of the Year award in 2019.
Jeremiah Camara
Author & Filmmaker
Jeremiah Camara is the author of the books Holy Lockdown: Does The Church Limit Black Progress? and The New Doubting Thomas: The Bible, Black Folks & Blind Belief.
Camara is the creator of the widely watched video series Slave Sermons.
Next Camara created Contradiction: A Question of Faith, a full‐length documentary examining the saturation of churches in Black communities coexisting with poverty and powerlessness.
His latest documentary film project is entitled Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism in America. Holy Hierarchy explains how the beliefs in a Supreme Being during colonial America led to notions of supreme human beings and how these notions worked their way into the legal system; ultimately turning racism into an institution.
Liz Cavell
Freedom from Religion Foundation
Liz Cavell received her B.A in English from the University of Florida in 2005. After college, Elizabeth spent a year as a full-time volunteer in AmeriCorps*NCCC. She attended Tulane University Law School and received her Juris Doctor in 2009. After law school, she worked as a deputy public defender in southern Colorado. She joined the Foundation as a staff attorney in January 2013, after working for the Foundation part-time since September 2012. Elizabeth became Deputy Legal Director in April 2024.
Sikivu Hutchinson
Writer, Educator, Director, Musician
Sikivu Hutchinson is a writer, educator, director and guitarist. Her books, plays and films include Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical, White Nights, Black Paradise, the 2021 novel and 2022 play Rock 'n' Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe and the short story collection The Roar of Distant Engines. Rock 'n' Roll Heretic was a 2023 Lambda Literary LGBTQ+ Drama finalist. Her articles have been published in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, The Humanist Magazine and the L.A. Times. She is also the founder of the Women's Leadership Project Black feminist mentoring and advocacy program for girls of color in South L.A. and Black Skeptics Los Angeles. She is also a co-facilitator of the L.A.-based Black LGBTQI+ Parent and Caregiver group and a member of the Distant Engines South L.A. garage band.
Jon Lovell
TheSkepTick
TheSkepTick (Jon) is a British Atheist who has lived in Kentucky for the past 3 years. Before moving across the pond, Jon created TheSkepTick YouTube channel where he uses humour to point out the silliness some folks claim to be true, which is now an outlet for his ‘vocal atheism’ as it’s definitely not easy to be a non believer in the United States.