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**Eugenie Scott**, a former university professor, served as the executive director of NCSE from 1987 to 2014; she now serves as the chair of NCSE's Advisory Council. Scott has been both a researcher and an activist in the creationism/evolution controversy for over twenty-five years, and speaks to its educational, legal, scientific, religious, and social issues. She has received national recognition for her NCSE activities, including awards from scientific societies, educational societies, skeptics groups, and humanist groups. She holds nine honorary degrees, from McGill, Rutgers, Mt. Holyoke, the University of New Mexico, Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Colorado College, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Chapman University. Scott is the author of \_Evolution vs Creationism\_ and co-editor, with Glenn Branch, of \_Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.\_

Meghna Chakrabarti is an American journalist and radio producer. She is the host of NPR's On Point, the former host of the WBUR news program Radio Boston and the Modern Love podcast.

**Alex Myers** is a writer, teacher, speaker, and activist. At Phillips Exeter Academy, Alex came out as transgender, and was the first transgender student in that Academy's history. After Exeter, Alex earned his bachelor's at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and living in the Dudley Co-op. Alex was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University's nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. Subsequent to earning a master's degree in religion at Brown, Alex has pursued a career in teaching English at secondary schools. He completed his Master's of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on \_Revolutionary\_.