Trish Hotze Cowan (Board Secretary)

Trish Cowan is a humanist and Sunday School Director for the Ethical Society of St. Louis, the largest Ethical Society in the United States.

While a student at Webster University, Trish traveled to Germany with the International Business Exchange program, an experience she calls "one of the most enriching and rewarding accomplishments of my life." After graduating from Webster with a B.S. in Religious Studies and a minor in German, Trish worked as support staff in a group home for St. Louis Arc, assisting adults with developmental disabilities with daily living skills and community integration.

In addition to her current position with the Ethical Society of St. Louis, Trish serves on the Religious Education Committee for the American Ethical Union, the umbrella organization for Ethical Societies nationwide.

Trish lives in St. Louis with her husband and son.

Wayne C. Huey, Ph.D. (Board Ethicist)

Wayne Huey retired from a career as a high school educator and counselor in 2001. His education includes a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Oklahoma Baptist University and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University. He is a secular humanist.

He served as President of the Georgia School Counselor Association (GSCA) and was named Secondary School Counselor of the Year at both the state and national levels. He is co-editor of Ethical and Legal Issues in School Counseling and has devoted much of his research and professional speaking to promoting ethical standards and practices. The College of Education at Georgia State University honored Wayne as a Distinguished Scholar for Academic Achievement in Educational Research following his selection by GSCA and ASCA as Researcher of the Year. In the 2008, the GSCA presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Wayne resides in Alpharetta, Georgia with his wife Patsy, not far from his three children and three grandchildren.

Dale McGowan, Ph.D. (Executive Director)

Dale is editor and co-author of Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, the first comprehensive resources for nonreligious parents. He writes the secular parenting blog The Meming of Life and has taught seminars for nontheistic parents across the United States. In 2008 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University.

Dale's past non-profit work includes serving as U.S. Communications Coordinator for Nonviolent Peaceforce, a global civilian peacekeeping organization based in Brussels. He holds degrees in physical anthropology and music theory from UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. He and his wife Becca, a first grade teacher, live in Atlanta with their three children.

Hemant Mehta (Board President)

Hemant Mehta is the author of I Sold My Soul on eBay and creator of Friendly Atheist, consistently ranked among the top three atheist blogs. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he graduated with honors in both Mathematics and Biology and helped establish the school's first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He is now earning his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University while teaching high school math in suburban Chicago.

Hemant also serves as Chair of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) Board of Directors and is SSA representative to the Secular Coalition for America.

Kate Miller, Ph.D. (Board Treasurer)

After graduating magna cum laude in Linguistics and Russian Language & Literature from Brown University in 1990, Kate Miller's career took a sharp turn to the scientific. She worked for two years as a field coordinator for Planned Parenthood, then earned a Master's in Public Health from Columbia University with an emphasis in Population and Family Health. During her MPH program, she carried out geographic information systems analyses of urban reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa.

After several years working in demographic research and reproductive health, Kate completed a Ph.D. in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania and continued her work related to fertility, contraception, STI prevention, and reproductive choice.

In 2008 Kate founded Charlie's Playhouse, an award-winning company that produces games and toys to introduce kids to biological evolution. She lives with her family in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a secular humanist.