Enthusiastic Brights (Page 4)
Will Morris
Will is founder and president of the largest Brights Local Constituency (BLC) in the United States. It is located at the University of Missouri–Columbia, where he also founded a coalition of various student organizations on campus, "Students for a Secular State." In addition to his efforts of spreading the Bright meme in his neck of the woods, Will has spent his extra hours creating a website, http://www.CivilBrights.net, which carries the intent of enabling and inspiring Bright activism around the world.
Bob Churchill
Bob trained in philosophy at the University of Warwick (UK) and Queens University (Canada). As of January 2008 he is the Website Manager and Local Groups liaison for the British Humanist Association. Bob has previously developed www.brightsOnline.net to serve as a flexible, free host for initiatives by Brights, and he has run a campaign for secular education in the UK. He is a Facilitator at Brights Forum and in his spare time he is writing a "philosophical adventure novel".
Taner Edis
Associate professor of physics at Truman State University, he has written extensively about science and religion and paranormal-related topics. His books include "The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science," which received the Morris D. Forkosch award for "best humanist book of 2002". He has also authored "Science and Nonbelief" and "An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam." Edis also contributes to the Secular Outpost. He believes that cats should inherit the earth.
Debra Deanne Olson
Long a progressive and environmental grassroots activist, she serves on the boards of several youth and educational nonprofits, including Global Tribe Network and New Visions Foundation. A native Californian and mother of two teenage daughters, Debra is proud granddaughter of the only openly atheist governor in American history, California’s Culbert Levy Olson (1938-1942). Her global vision is to develop new funding and media to benefit organizations who share her goals, including those which are grounded in a naturalistic worldview.
Massimo Pigliucci
As professor of ecology and evolution, he does research and teaching at SUNY-Stony Brook when he is not pursuing his interests in philosophy of science at the same institution. He wrote Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science, and for several years has written for The Skeptical Inquirer and published a regular column on skepticism and humanism at www.rationallyspeaking.org, Says Massimo, in introducing his website: "Skepticism, contrary to popular belief, is not a synonim for cynicism, and is most certainly not practiced by grumpy and stuffy academics. Rather, to follow David Hume, this site is about positive skepticism, or the idea that reasonable belief in something has to be proportional to the evidence favoring such belief."