Edd Doerr

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Phone: (301) 260-2988
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E-mail: edoerr@americanhumanist.org

Edd Doerr served as president of the American Humanist Association from 1995-2002 and previously served as vice president under Isaac Asimov for six years. An AHA member since 1950, he is a Humanist Celebrant, and a signer of Humanist Manifesto II in 1973 and Humanist Manifesto III in 2003. Doerr has published a church-and-state column in the Humanist for 30 years and also serves on its editorial board. He was the editor of The American Rationalist in the early 1960's and of Church & State magazine from 1970-1982.

Doerr received the AHA's Humanist Pioneer Award in 1984 and its Humanist Distinguished Service Award in 1992. He has represented the AHA on the board of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, the National Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. He is a former board member of American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL).

Doerr is a prolific writer; the author, co-author, editor, or translator of 20 books that include, The Case Against Charitable Choice, The Case Against School Vouchers, and Abortion Rights and Fetal "Personhood." His opinion editorials and letters to the editor regularly appear in major newspapers like the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has addressed audiences in more than thirty states and five countries and led workshops at Humanist conferences and Unitarian Universalist General Assemblies, where he has often been a delegate. Doerr is a former high school history, government, Spanish, and English teacher and is currently the executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty. A frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, he has debated televangelist Jerry Falwell and participated as long as six hours on a radio talk show (KABC in L.A.).