Conference Speakers

Khoren Arisian

Leader Emeritus, New York Society for Ethical Culture; Senior Minister, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (1979-1997)

Greg Epstein

Humanist Chaplain, Harvard University; author, Good Without God

Sean Faircloth

Executive Director, Secular Coalition for America; former Maine state legislator

Kendyl Gibbons

Senior Minister, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (1998-); Co-dean, The Humanist Institute; former president, Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association

John Hooper

President, Unitarian Universalist Religious Humanists; Board member, HUUmanists Association

Wendy Jerome

Vice president, HUUmanists Association

Stefan Jonasson

Director for Large Congregations, Unitarian Universalist Association; former President and current Board member, HUUmanists Association

Bill Murry

Author, Reason and Reverence; former president, Meadville/Lombard Theological School

Mason Olds

Emeritus Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Springfield College; Author, American Religious Humanism; Editor, What If the World Went Humanist? TenPulpit Addresses by John Dietrich

Gretchen Robinson

Co-mentor, Class XVII, The Humanist Institute

David Schafer

President, HUUmanists Association (2003-)

June Schafer

Co-founder and President, Humanist Association of Connecticut; Chair, TaskForce for Social Justice, Unitarian Society of New Haven; former Vice President for Programs, Interfaith Cooperative Ministries of Greater New Haven

Dan Schlorff

Director of Religious Education, Unitarian Society of New Haven

Robert Tapp

Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, South Asian Studies,University of Minnesota; Dean Emeritus, The Humanist Institute; Chair, five national study committees/commissions, Universalist Church of America, 1957-59, and UUA, 1960-67; longtime member, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis

Michael Werner

Leader, Smart Recovery evidence-based addiction therapy; President, AmericanHumanist Association (1993-4), longtime The Humanist Institute faculty member and HUUmanists Association Board Member