Our next speaker is Jennifer Taylor of the Carolinas Secular Association, whose topic is “Increasing Diversity & Building Community Within the Secular Movement.”
Jennifer Taylor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised within a dual-religious family (Jehovah’s Witness and Baptist); she was skeptical from a young age with an inquisitive nature. She considers herself both an Atheist as well as a Secular Humanist with a strong interest in community service, social justice, and separation of church and state issues.
She currently serves as the organizer for Black Atheists of Philadelphia; a group that both welcomes and encourages non-theists of diverse backgrounds to become both open and active within the Greater Philadelphia area. Black Atheists of Philadelphia is affiliated with African Americans for Humanism and the Greater Philadelphia Coalition of Reason (PhillyCor).
In addition, she is an organizer for the newly formed group, Humanists of East Tennessee. She is also a board member of the Freethought Society and an active member of the New Jersey Humanist Network. Furthermore, she is an avid Jazz enthusiast who also organizes the Philadelphia Jazz Meetup.
Jenn is presently employed within corporate America, has a background in management and has more than seventeen years of diverse management level experience. Jenn regularly visits several groups within the Pennsylvania/New Jersey/ Tennessee area and has also attended numerous secular events, conferences and rallies including The Reason Rally, the Blackout Secular Rally and has also participated in the Madison Atheists booth during the group’s “Ask An Atheist “event. In addition, she has been a guest on the Black Freethinkers Radio show and The Forbidden Fruit Radio Show, and has served as a guest panelist during the People of Color Beyond Faith conference.
Her short term goals are promoting diversity within the secular community and being an encouraging force and support to members of the secular community that have not publicly proclaimed their skepticism about religion. Long-term her mission is to help move the world towards accepting valid information related to decisions that affect us all and to help provide networking opportunities, information and support to those who have yet to discover their voice within the secular community.
We meet at noon for socializing, and then the talk starts at 1:00. The facility is wheelchair accessible.
Atlanta Freethought Hall is a former Primitive Baptist Church, built in 1865. Atlanta Freethought Society was founded in 1985, which makes it one of Metro Atlanta’s oldest secular societies. AF Hall is the meeting place for Fellowship of Reason, Freedom of Religion Foundation of Atlanta, as well as other organizations. We rent the building at reasonable rates. If you would like to rent the hall for an organization meeting, a party, a wedding, etc., please see a Board Member.