Contributors

Atheist Alliance International relies on and appreciates the assistance of a range of contributors to its operations and activities.  Thank you everyone!
 

Communications

Social Media

Matt Kovach (Social Media Coordinator)
Matt Kovach previous ran his own business as a hairstylist, but today considers himself a habitual volunteer and activist.  He has volunteered for AAI since before its separation in 2011 and is currently also a volunteer with Responsible Charity.  Matt's motto is "Two hands working can do more than a thousand hands clasped in prayer".

News Team

Anne (Australasia/Pacific)
Anne is currently studying Pharmacology, doing a fair bit of online writing, and involved in the Secular Party of Australia, a local Humanist group and her university's secular society.  She was baptised as a child into the Anglican Church and was sent to religious schools for most of her life, which essentially turned her away from religion, after seeing the stark abuse and miscarriages of justice that occurred.

Christine Jaurigue (Editor/Coordinator)
Christine Jaurigue has been a teacher for five years. She has degrees in English Literature and Psychology, and a diploma in editing. She was raised in a Catholic family and embarked on her road to atheism after reading Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

Raymond Clevenger (North America)
Raymond Clevenger is a computer networking specialist who works for a state university.  He was raised in a household devoted to the Society of Friends (Quaker), but began to heavily question his own religious belief early in life. Upon turning eighteen he joined the U.S. military and served in the First Iraq War. His experiences in the military and a constant bombardment of religious propaganda and coercion from acquaintances, friends, and family influenced him to become a more outspoken atheist, with a desire to encourage skepticism and reason in order to live in a healthier society based on freedom of thought instead of the constricted teachings of religion.

Danika (Australasia/Pacific)
Danika is a writer, the editor of a monthly newsletter for a writing centre and a 9-5 office worker. She was raised in a non-religious household and sent to Catholic primary and high school where she found that not all questions were answered well enough, and so went to University and completed a BA in Philosophy. Though she lives in an apparently secular country, the lack of skepticism and influence of religious groups concerns her. She considers education one of the most important steps in creating a more equal and healthy community, and plans to eventually become a teacher, specialising in critical thinking, literature and history.

Farran J. (Asia)
Faran is a blogger,education activist,who is currently chasing a degree in International Relations. He was born in a conservative Muslim family in the region of Pakistan. He was sent to an Islamic medressa in an early age where he read Koran and witnessed child abuse. In his college years,he studied Bible and later renounced religion. Now he is a member of PAA (Pakistani Atheists and Agnostics) and considers himself an atheist activist.  

M. J. (Europe)

He R. Lock & She R. Lock (Asia)
He. R. Lock and She. R. Lock share the ideals of atheism and are happily engaged. Both are following their passion of psychology and writing. They live in a Muslim country and were born and raised in Muslim families. Studying religions and witnessing the atrocities committed by people in the name of religion, they renounced their religion and embraced a life full of love for humanity. They managed to break the shackles of religion by their own conscious effort. They did so by thinking critically, questioning their long held beliefs and consequently choosing to live a life of rationality and empathy.

Mohammad (Middle East)
Mohammad was raised in a very religious Islamic family. He used to go to mosques frequently and do religious tasks precisely. But, about five years ago, he found out that the religious things he used to do were nonsense. He felt what he was doing within the Islamic principles was meaningless. As a result, he decided to come out of superstitious world and go in to the real world.  He looks for a better world and thinks in the absence of education and knowledge gods and supernatural powers are made. He believes by thinking rationally making such a world with peace is possible. Living in a country with the right of freedom of thought and expression and going to university are two of his aims.

Jo Stephanie (Africa)

Sonam (Europe)
Sonam completed her undergraduate degree in zoology in London in 2012 and is going on to pursue a masters of research in primatology. It was through her love of science and the notion of natural selection that she began to question the existence of a god. She is also currently volunteering for the British Humanist Association.