Humanist Chaplain @Harvard. Author of NY Times Bestselling book Good Without God: What a Billion Non-Religious People Do Believe. Directs @HarvardHumanist.

James Croft is the Research and Education Fellow at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, and has been working on the Humanist Community Project since its inception. He is a Cambridge and Harvard Graduate, and is currently studying for his Doctorate in the philosophy of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was raised on Shakespeare, Sagan and Star Trek, and is a proud, gay Humanist.

Jonathan Figdor is the Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University. John came to the Humanist Community Project during his time as an MDiv student at Harvard Divinity School. While at Harvard, he pioneered the Humanist Chaplaincy Training Program at Harvard Divinity School, serving as the pilot student and helping Greg Epstein set the curriculum. Before coming to the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, John worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA in a domestic violence shelter in rural Montana, a job he took after graduating with a B.A. in philosophy at Vassar. This summer, he will launch a Humanist Chaplaincy at a prestigious University on the West Coast.

Chaplain Binyamin Biber is an ordained Humanistic rabbi who has for a decade served a DC congregation called Machar, the Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism. He is also currently the President of the Association of Humanistic Rabbis - North America, a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of J Street – working for a just peace between Israel and Palestine, and a board member of the Humanist Society, the professional organization of chaplains and officiants active within the American Humanist Association (AHA).

Scott Rhoades is a husband, father, atheist, Humanist, and President of the Lancaster Freethought Society in Lancaster PA. He also helps run a Facebook group called Freethought Group Organizers that allows group leaders in the freethought community to pool their knowledge and share best practices in an informal setting.

Conor is a 2010 Yale alumnus and the founder of the Yale Humanist Society (now called the Secular Student Alliance at Yale). After graduating, Conor joined Teach For America and committed to teach for two years in a low-income community. He is currently in his second year as a TFA Corps Member, working as Resource Specialist Teacher at Jose A. Castellanos Elementary School in the heart of the Salvadoran Corridor in Los Angeles. Conor is in the planning stages for Pathfinders Project: 5 humanists on a yearlong global service trip. Launch date: July, 2013 (more information at http://www.pathfindersproject.com and @pthfndrsprjct).

Audrey Fernandez-Fraser graduated from Harvard College in 2011 with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology and a secondary field in Music. A classically-trained singer, composer, writer, and spiritual seeker, she spends her days making music, tutoring children, and exploring various religious and Humanistic philosophies and communities.

Amanda K. Metskas is the executive director of Camp Quest, Inc. She has been involved with Camp Quest since 2003, and became executive director in 2007. Currently, Amanda focuses on providing coordination and support services to all of the Camp Quest programs. She is a co-author of Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief with Dale McGowan, Molleen Matsumura and Jan Devor. Amanda holds an M.A. in political science from Ohio State University, and a B.A. in international relations and psychology from Brown University.

Crystal Alburger is a Unitarian Universalist from the San Francisco Bay Area. As a Spiritual Activist Fellow with the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of California, she has lobbied for the Human Right to Water and designed a program for young adults to reflect on the relationship between their values and actions. She is interested in promoting religiously pluralistic community and bringing theists and nontheists together around shared Humanist values. She considers talking to people, reading, going to church, riding her motorcycle, and cooking to be some of her most spiritually fulfilling practices.

Ed Clint is a senior at the University of Illinois studying evolutionary psychology. He fought against religious proslytization as an atheist in the Air Force and served as President of the Illini Secular Student Alliance. He has organized and produced debates and secularist protest activity as well as cooperative transfaith efforts to effect community service and greater comity between theists and nontheists.

Kevin Watson is a humanist & atheist, gay, and more than a bit geeky. He has worked within the nonprofit community most of his adult life. His work has focused around marketing and public relations with an emphasis on online outreach strategies. He is a member of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis and a candidate of class 17 of the Humanist Institute. His primary focus has been on how community can be facilitated and expanded with technology. Kevin enjoys knitting, jogging, and avoiding Minnesota’s weather. He loves forcing his partner to watch movies from the 1980’s, penguins, and reading any book he can find (lately those related to theology or philosophy).

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Catherine first came to New York to work with non-profit organizations doing advocacy at the United Nations. After five years of experience of challenging structures of injustice at the international level, Catherine made a decision to focus her work closer to home. Seminary was her next step. The experience was made possible with a full tuition scholarship - the Howard Moody scholarship. Currently, Catherine is the Clergy Leader in Training at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. Catherine received a B.A. from Cardinal Stritch University in history and women’s studies. She has a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Catherine lives in Park Slope with her partner Alexandra and a bi-lingual puppy named Maya. She is passionate about racial justice, gender justice, the slow food movement, sustainable development and gardening.

With over 10 years of experience as a campus and off-campus leader, Sharon Moss is the Alumni Director for the Secular Student Alliance.

I am a Secular Humanistic Jew and ordained rabbi. I am also an atheist with a strong attachment to secular humanistic ideas and my Jewish heritage, too. I blog at www.TheAtheistRabbi.com and I'm thrilled to be part of the Humanist Community Project!

Tommie Shelby is a professor of African and African-American studies and of philosophy at Harvard University.

Juhem is a political scientist and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture (ISSSC) and blogs about Latinos, Politics and Secularism at The LatiNone.

Andy Semler is a genderqueer atheist nerd. Ze is an organizer for the St Louis Atheist Meetup Group and an active member of the Ethical Society of St Louis. Andy believes that "it gets better" only when we start making it better. Blog: http://andythenerd.tumblr.com/

Chris Johnson is a New York-based photographer and filmmaker. He received his undergraduate degree in film production (along with a minor in religious studies) from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. His photography has been seen in The New York Times. Chris is the recipient of the Kodak Award for Excellence in Filmmaking as well as the B.F. Lorenzetti Scholarship for Excellence in Filmmaking.

Gordon Bonnet is a writer, musician, and biology teacher who currently lives in Trumansburg, New York. You can follow him on Twitter @TalesOfWhoa, and follow his blog at http://skeptophilia.blogspot.com.

The Humanist Graduate Community at Harvard originated in 2005 with a group of non-religious students seeking a community of open-minded, intellectually curious, nontheistic/nonreligious students. Our members come from all of the graduate schools at Harvard and have a wide range of backgrounds and concerns. Discussions at our gatherings range from the political (e.g., church-state separation) to the personal (e.g., living with a religious partner), and even to the spiritual (after all, one can be a spiritual humanist). We meet on Thursdays, 6-8pm, for dinner and discussion at Harvard’s Humanist Center at 12 Eliot St. Check out our Facebook group for announcements.