Rebecca Goldstein to deliver Keynote Lecture at SSA New England Leadership Summit

The Secular Student Alliance is proud to announce that philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein will be delivering the keynote address at the New England Leadership Summit at Harvard University, April 16-18, 2010.

Goldstein is the author of several noteworthy novels and biographies, including Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, and her latest work, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. Goldstein is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

She has earned numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship (popularly known as the "Genius Award"), a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship. Her novel Mazel received the 1995 National Jewish Book Award and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award. In 2008, Goldstein was designated a Humanist Laureate by the International Academy of Humanism.

The Secular Student Alliance New England Leadership Summit will be held April 16-18 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. This weekend event includes leadership training, problem solving, networking, and exciting events including Goldstein's keynote and a special presentation of the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy's Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism Award to the MythBusters. Learn more and register at www.secularstudents.org/newengland.