The Secular Student Alliance is pleased to announce that we have added popular blogger Greta Christina (Greta Christina's Blog) and author Dr. Darrel Ray (The God Virus) to our Speakers Bureau.  The Speakers Bureau consists of freethought speakers who have graciously offered to speak / present / debate on your campus for free, provided you are an official affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance.  Learn more about the Bureau at www.secularstudents.org/speakers.

Greta Christina
Greta Christina is one of the most widely-read and well-respected bloggers in the atheist blogosphere. She was recently ranked by an independent analyst as one of the Top Ten most popular atheist bloggers. She is the regular atheist correspondent for AlterNet, the online political magazine with over 1,200,000 hits a week, and has been writing about atheism and skepticism for her own cleverly-named Greta Christina's Blog since 2005. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, including Ms., Skeptical Inquirer, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the anthology Everything You Know About God Is Wrong. She has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind.

Dr. Darrel Ray
Darrel attended church, taught Sunday school, was a tenor soloist, and even preached on occasion throughout his 20’s and into his mid-thirties but nothing about religion seemed to add up.  By age 35 he was an agnostic and by 40, atheist.  He continued to be curious about the inner workings of religion and how it impacts and infects people.  His research and writing led him to Memetics, and provided the seed upon which to research and write about religion as a parasitic meme, culminating in his latest book The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture (IPC Press, 2009).  Darrel is also founder of Recovering from Religion, an organization dedicated to helping people heal the emotional damage of religious programming and learn the joy of faith free living.

If you are interested in having either of these speakers come present at your campus, please contact the campus organizer at organizer@secularstudents.org, or fill out our online Speaker Request form.