Candace R. M. Gorham MA, LPCS is a licensed professional mental health counselor. She is a former ordained minister turned atheist-humanist activist, researcher, and writer on issues related to race and religion.

She is a member of the Black Humanist Alliance advisory board, The Secular Therapist Project, and The Clergy Project.

Candace is also the author of The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion—and Others Should Too.

Jeremiah Camara is the author of the books Holy Lockdown: Does The Church Limit Black Progress? and The New Doubting Thomas: The Bible, Black Folks & Blind Belief. Camara is the creator of the widely watched video series Slave Sermons. Next Camara created Contradiction: A Question of Faith, a full‐length documentary examining the saturation of churches in Black communities coexisting with poverty and powerlessness. His latest documentary film project is entitled Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism in America. Holy Hierarchy explains how the beliefs in a Supreme Being during colonial America led to notions of supreme human beings and how these notions worked their way into the legal system; ultimately turning racism into an institution.

Phil Zuckerman is the author of several books, including What It Means to be Moral (Counterpoint, 2019) The Nonreligious (Oxford, 2016), Living the Secular Life (Penguin, 2014), Faith No More (Oxford, 2012), and Society Without God (NYU, 2008), and the editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Secularism (2016) and The Social Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois (2004). He is an Associate Dean as well as Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, and the founding chair of the nation’s first Secular Studies Program. He is also the Executive Director of Humanist Global Charity. He is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Conversation, Salon, and Onlysky. He lives in Claremont, California, with his wife and three children.

Dan was PR Director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation from 1987 to 2004. He was elected co-president of the Foundation with Annie Laurie Gaylor in 2004, with whom he is co-host of Freethought Radio, a national weekly talkshow, and Freethought Matters, a national weekly TV show. He is a contributing editor of Freethought Today and is involved with the Foundation’s state/church lawsuits. He regularly travels the country and the world giving lectures, performing concerts, and participating in debates with theists, many at college and university campuses.

Monica Burns is the lead organizer for Black Nonbelievers of Louisville, Kentucky. Born in Albany, Georgia, Monica has lived in Louisville since 1998. She is also a member of the Louisville Atheists and Freethinkers and the American Humanist Association.  

In 2017, Monica established the Louisville affiliate of Black Nonbelievers to provide a safe place for people of color leaving religion, and to comfortably address the unique issues of being Black and nonreligious in America.

Monica is also a cohost of Blasphemy in the Bluegrass, a weekly podcast dedicated to maintaining the wall of separation between church and state. She has been a featured speaker with the Tri State Freethinkers, and events including the Kentucky Freethought Convention, Nashville Nones Convention (NaNoCon), and BN’s SeaCon (cruise convention).