The Leadership Track, by SSA
Do
you lead a freethought Meetup group or a student chapter of the
Secular Student Alliance? Then this track was created for you.
Network with other organizers while learning how to boost your
membership, streamline meetings, and share resources.
Leadership Workshops and Presentations
Check back in just a few days for all the exciting details about our leadership workshops and presentations.
About the Secular Student Alliance
The mission of the Secular Student Alliance is to organize, unite, educate, and serve students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human-based ethics.
The Secular Student Alliance is providing these speakers for Freethought Day:
Lyz Liddell, Director of Campus Organizing
Lyz Liddell is the Director of Campus Organizing for the Secular Student Alliance, coordinating the campus organizing team to deliver the SSA's
services and resources to affiliate groups and individual students.
She leads development of new resources and helps build relationships with other organizations to promote acceptance of secular students.
She volunteers with her local off-campus organization, the Humanist Community of Central Ohio, and is a member of the Challenge the Gap advisory board for Foundation Beyond Belief.
Ashley Paramore, Development Director
Ashley Paramore is the Secular Student Alliance Development Director. She has been involved in the freethought movement since 2007, when she
brought together atheists/freethinkers/humanists in Columbus, OH by starting a chapter of the Rational Response Squad and then later via another
organization called Omnipresent Atheists.
She went on to serve as the chair of Students for Freethought @ Ohio State from 2007 to 2009. Ashley also served on the board of directors of the Secular Student Alliance from 2008 to 2010.
Sharon Moss, Alumni Director
Sharon Moss is the Alumni Director for the Secular Student Alliance. She is a former president of Students for
Freethought at The Ohio State University and current president of the Humanist Community of Central Ohio.
Sharon serves as the Alumni Advisor to Students for Freethought and is the atheist representative to the University Interfaith Association at Ohio State. Sharon is also a certified Humanist Celebrant with the Humanist Society and is authorized by the state of Ohio to solemnize marriages.
Evan Clark, Board Member
Evan was the first openly atheist student body president at
California Lutheran University, and co-founder of the Secular Student Alliance at CLU. He served as his SSA club president on campus for three
years before being elected to the Board of Directors for the national Secular Student Alliance in 2011.
Evan currently is a self-employed marketing consultant and graphic designer, and in his spare time is organizing a new local humanist group in Ventura County, CA.
Circle, friend, or follow Evan on Google+, Facebook, or Twitter today.
Nick Conrad
Nick was brought up as a Mormon in the Seattle area until he lost
his religion as a Freshman in college. Since that time he has embraced secular activism.
He has led several student groups over the years of his long education at different univeristies. He has led a Philosophy Club at Bellevue Community College, the Atheist Agnostic Student Group at Washingston State University, and the Secular Student Alliance at UC, Santa Cruz. He also wrote an Opinon Column in the Daily Evergreen, the "Atheist Line," every week for a year and half at Washington State University.
He recieved his BA in History from UC, Berkeley, his MA in History at Washingston State University, and is currently a PhD student at UC, Santa Cruz doing research on the intellectual history of atheism in Modern Europe.










