Who’s Who on Skepchick
Rebecca Watson
Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and appears regularly on the Curiosity Aroused podcast, the weekly Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast, and the Little Atoms radio show. She currently lives in London but travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it. You can follow her every fascinating move on Twitter: @rebeccawatson.
Masala_Skeptic
Maria Walters (a.k.a. Masala Skeptic) has spent a lot of time in ‘furrin parts,’ including Hong Kong, Trinidad, and Pittsburgh. Although her passport is from India, she’s spent most of her adult life in the United States. She currently lives in Atlanta and runs the Atlanta Skeptics. She has an unhealthy affection for science fiction, Neil Gaiman and all things Muppet.
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a.real.girl
A B Kovacs contributes not nearly as often as she’d like to here at Skepchick. She is a event planner by day, building community events like the San Diego Science Festival and plotting tours for the likes of George Hrab. Additionally, she is the “Director of Døøm” at Dark Øverlord Media, a publishing company she co-founded with skeptic and fiction author Scott Sigler. Prior to all this, A was a clinical researcher focused on “lifestyle” drugs to treat things-that-won’t-kill-you such as hayfever and erectile dysfunction. A is a rabid movie geek, Doctor Who fan, and science nerd. She volunteers in several women-forward and science-oriented organizations in San Diego where she lives.
Elyse
The Elyse Anders drinking game is a simple one – drink once every time she says “Well, actually….” Fortunately, she provides the booze herself and has a mean drink repertoire, aspiring to create 300 unique cocktail recipes (like the pink peppercorn tangerine or chocolate encased Mexican fried ice cream martinis and the strawberry basil margarita). An aspiring skeptical superhero, her arch-nemeses are the Evil Dr. MedicalWoo and Tom Cruise. The only thing she fears more than spiders is her son uttering the words “Mom, meet my fiance, Suri.” Her skeptical weakness is that she believes people desperately want to watch hours of her 6 month old on YouTube.
Sam Ogden
Sam is a complex character, as are most modern day renaissance men. He thinks critically about the world, but unfortunately, not about his attire. He’s an extraordinarily average writer and a chronicler of profound mundanity, and he relaxes on the weekends by sitting on his couch in his underwear eating stick after stick of butter. He lives in a peculiar fugue state made of skeptical clarity and sublime ridiculousness, and there aren’t too many things Sam won’t do for a drink. Sam is also a songwriter, and along with his buddy, Harry, has written several masterpieces that are yet untainted by the pall of mass consumption. Please help him remedy that. You can follow Sam on Twitter: @SamOgden
Jen
Jen Myers is a web designer in Columbus, Ohio. She organizes Girl Develop It Columbus, where she also teaches HTML/CSS, and speaks regularly on design, coding education and diversity in technology. She likes good movies, comic books and traveling. She spends too much time on Twitter at @antiheroine.
Amanda
Amanda is into biology and anthropology, especially when the two combine. She enjoys knitting and whiskey but doesn’t recommend mixing them. She can’t decide if conspiracy theorists or naturopaths should be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Amy
Surly Amy is a 4th generation visual artist who resides in the heart of Hollywood, California. She runs a handmade art business called Surly-Ramics where she along with her husband, Surly Johnny create hand-formed and hand-painted ceramic jewelry. Their “Smart Jewelry” line has been seen on intelligent, sexy skeptics from Australia to Canada and back. Amy has worked professionally as a photographer, a graphic designer, a painter, an art gallery owner, a waitress, a dog groomer, a bar manager and an extra in television and film. As a long time resident of Hollywood she is quite familiar with the shenanigans and the woo that is pushed on the general population from behind the silver screen. She loves to add her creative skills to the fight against pseudoscience and attempts to expose the wacky misconceptions that run wild in tinseltown and throughout the world. When she’s not on Skepchick or galavanting around town with a camera you can find her on Twitter (@surlyamy), on Facebook or on Etsy.
Debbie
Debbie Goddard works at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, NY as CFI On Campus coordinator and director of African Americans for Humanism. She also does the intro for CFI’s Point of Inquiry podcast, which she dreams of parlaying into an awesome future career as a video game voice actor. Before working for CFI, she participated in freethought and skeptic groups in the Philadelphia region and helped organize and support campus groups internationally as a student volunteer. Eleven years of Catholic school fostered her keen interest in issues related to secularism and atheism, while doing magic shows with her father as a teenager sparked a fascination with the psychology of deception. Other interests include language and perception, Marvel comics, LGBT activism, Trivial Pursuit, and general geekery. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
Mindy
Mindy is an attorney and Managing Editor of Teen Skepchick. Her weaknesses include music, British science fiction, and Colin Firth. She also blogs at Citizen of the World and Sniping in the Gutters. You can follow her on Twitter and on Google+.
Heina
Heina spent her childhood as a practicing Muslim who never in her right mind would have believed that she would grow up to be an atheist feminist secular humanist, or, in other words, a Skepchick writer. She has been an active participant in atheist organizations and events in and around Orange County, CA since 2007. Her writing will be published in the forthcoming anthology Perverts of Color.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline, a true Floridian, wandered up to the tundra of Athens, Georgia to receive her PhD in computational quantum chemistry. Returning to her roots, she is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in Tampa in the field of computational biochemistry investigating the wonders of penicillin-like drugs. When she is not slaving over the computer, her varied interests include international travel, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, fancy food, (American) football, and Belgian quadrupels. Follow me on Twitter @jhargis9.
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