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Alex Gabriel

Alex is an atheist, freethinker and fan of dissent. He used to run a godless student group and now works as a graphic designer and fundraiser for various groups, including Camp Quest UK. Alex helped organise One Law for All’s Rally for Free Expression in 2012, attracting several hundred people; he's criticised prayer on national TV, and his blog posts from UCL’s Jesus and Mo fiasco are some of his most widely read. He recently attended Soul Survivor, the UK's leading youth festival for evangelical Christians, and wrote a series of blogs on the experience for The Skeptic. View all posts by Alex Gabriel →

Ed Cara

Ed Cara is a New York City based comedian, and day job holder. In his spare time, he's also a writer of words, primarily dealing with the intersection of science and social justice to day-to-day life. Previously, Ed has contributed to The 21st Floor, a science and scepticism site based out of Scotland and maintained his own personal blog, The Demon Haunted World. Ed believes that science communication doesn't necessarily need to be left up to the PhD's of the world, only to engaging and entertaining writers who can easily, but accurately, distill down the importance of rational thought to the greater public. He also has an irrational love of pugs. View all posts by Ed Cara →

Rhys Morgan

Rhys is a skeptical activist with a thing for alternative medicine and tackling big quacks. He was given the Grassroots Skeptic Award at TAM London in 2010, after exposing Miracle Mineral Solution – an alternative treatment for Crohn’s disease – on the internet. Last year, the Texan Burzynski clinic threatened him with a libel case when he wrote about expensive ‘antineoplaston’ therapy it offered for life threatening cancers. (They didn’t follow through on that threat.) He’s since written for Comment is free, and talked in the mean time to various skeptical groups, including Skeptics in the Pub groups and ThinkCon 2011. View all posts by Rhys Morgan →

Siana Bangura

Siana is currently a History undergrad at the University of Cambridge, a socialist, an atheist, and a social commentator. When she's not tackling Modernism; Weimar and Nazi Germany; or Anglo-Saxon England; waving the flag for Marxism; or observing generation 'Y', she's either at the decks in a bunker bringing you little known music or at her laptop, blogging about all the things life throws at a twenty year old - including fighting 'The Man' and religious institutions. She 'sparred' with the Amish last summer, becoming a minor household name last year thanks to the channel 4 documentary, 'Living With the Amish', and has been noted as an 'interesting atheist in Britain - who isn't an old, white, privileged straight man'. She is currently planning to write a 'History of the Amish', using the unique insight she gained whilst on her rather bizarre adventure, and will be sharing her experiences of the Amish with UK school children as from September. One blogger even called her 'The Voice of Truth'. Not bad. View all posts by Siana Bangura →

Sundas Hoorain

Sundas Hoorain is a political activist and human rights lawyer from Pakistan. She was involved in the defence of several Pakistanis accused of blasphemy while working at Justice Project Pakistan, where she used her training in Sharia Law to devise litigation strategies to get the law overturned. She has drafted a manual on defending blasphemy cases under Pakistani and Sharia Law for Reprieve and has also worked against the death penalty, drone strikes, and police torture & other fair trial issues. Her political engagement began with the Student Action Committee in the Lawyer's movement in Pakistan. Since then she has organised numerous protests, and awareness campaigns. She co-hosted a talkshow about socio-political issues such as honour killing, sexual harrasment, alternative medicine etc on national TV in Pakistan. Her politics are left-leaning, but she stays far away from the current liberal fad of multiculturalism as an excuse for misogyny. View all posts by Sundas Hoorain →

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