As values-driven voters, humanists are caring, politically-active people that lead ethical lives and work to better this world without organized religion or belief in the supernatural. Our values are grounded in compassion, and informed by science and reason, justice and human rights. On this call, we will discuss what’s at stake in this election for our climate, scientific integrity, democracy, reproductive justice, and LGBTQ+ rights.
Our esteemed speakers included:
- Congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA), co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, founder of the Congressional Task Force to Stop Project 2025, and the only open nontheist in Congress
- Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus and lead impeachment manager in Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial
- Sasha Sagan, Author of For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- Ann Druyan, Creative Director of NASA’s legendary Voyager Interstellar Message and co-author of the original Cosmos series with her late husband, Carl Sagan
- Andrew Seidel, author of The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American and American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
- Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania
- Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist
- Kayley Whalen, LGBTQ+ advocate, blogger at TransWorldView and YouTuber
- Raven Schwam-Curtis, Content Creator & Keynote Speaker
- Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology