Debbie Goddard

Debbie Goddard (born April 16, 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American atheist activist and speaker. Since 2006, she has worked at the Center for Inquiry, a secular advocacy and and pro-science nonprofit organization, where she is currently the coordinator of the campus outreach program, CFI On Campus, and the director of African Americans for Humanism.^[1]

Secular activism

Goddard participated in the secular movement as a volunteer and activist for several years before being hired as a field organizer by the Center for Inquiry in 2006. From 2001 to 2004, she served as the volunteer Publications Director, then as student president of the Campus Freethought Alliance^[2], an international network of student freethinkers and skeptics which became CFI On Campus.^[3] She also founded and led a campus freethought group at Montgomery County Community College during that time. ^[4]

In 2002 she joined the Center for Inquiry Metro New York Advisory Board.^[5] That same year, she was profiled in an article on Beliefnet, "Godless Who’s Who"^[6], as "The Student Activist". She was also interviewed by the Washington Blade, an LGBT newspaper, as an “out” nonbeliever.^[7] In early 2006, journalist Jamila Bey interviewed Goddard for an article about African American female atheists for the Skepchick newsletter.^[8]

References

1. ^ http://www.centerforinquiry.net/speakers/goddard_debbie/
2. ^ http://www.centerforinquiry.net/oncampus/newsletter_archive/20060700.html
3. ^ http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=grothe_19_1
4. ^ http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Secular-Philosophies/Godless-Whos-Who.aspx?p=4
5. ^ http://www.centerforinquiry.net/speakers/goddard_debbie/
6. ^ http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Secular-Philosophies/Godless-Whos-Who.aspx?p=4
7. ^ http://www.centerforinquiry.net/speakers/goddard_debbie/
8. ^ http://skepchick.org/2010/02/farthest-back-in-the-closet-by-jamila-bey/

See also

• 'Point of Inquiry', the podcast of the Center for Inquiry