It gives me great pleasure to announce that Lyz Liddell will be joining our staff as senior campus organizer.  Lyz has been volunteering as the Editor-in-Chief for the Secular Student Alliance's eMpirical for over two years--so she should already be very familiar to most of you. 

I met Lyz when we were both at the Ohio State University, and I got to watch her blast through a Master of Music degree there in only a year with a 4.0 the whole way.  When I later learned that she'd finished her BA from Bradley summa cum laude, I wasn't surprised at all.  Having Lyz volunteer for me as Editor-in-Chief of the eMpirical has been a pleasure.  I'm incredibly excited about what the SSA as a whole will be able to accomplish now that we won't just have a few of Lyz's spare hours every month, but will get her full-time attention. 

As senior campus organizer, Lyz will be the primary point of contact between Secular Student Alliance headquarters and the leaders of the rapidly growing crop of campus groups which we support.  She will be the one responsible for making sure that as many of our groups as possible have access to all our great resources both old and new.  I cannot think of a more qualified person than Lyz to take on the herculean task of providing the SSA's network of over 145 groups with the resources they need to promote scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human based ethics on their campuses.  Lyz will be working remotely from Peoria, IL for a few months before her and her husband relocate to SSA headquarters.

Bjorn Watland, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be filling Lyz's shoes as Editor-in-Chief of the eMpirical starting with the October issue.  You'll learn more about Bjorn next month.