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Center for Inquiry, Richard Dawkins Foundation Merging; Robyn Blumner CFI's New [ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Center for Inquiry, Richard Dawkins Foundation Merging; Robyn Blumner CFI’s New CEO A year-long effort to find a successor to the Center for Inquiry’s outgoing president and CEO, Ronald A. Lindsay, came to a successful conclusion earlier this year with a big double-whammy announcement: the new president and CEO of CFI will be Robyn Blumner, president and CEO of the Richard “Both organizations share a vital common Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science mission, and together we can accomplish (RDFRS), and the RDFRS would be merging much more. And, of course, CFI looks for- with CFI. The new organization will be the ward to the benefit of close collaboration largest secularist and skeptic organization The merged organization with Richard Dawkins, indisputably one of in the United States and will bear the name will be the largest in the the preeminent public intellectuals of our Center for Inquiry, with the Richard Dawkins time.” (Also see, “Ronald A. Lindsay: ‘A Mo- Foundation for Reason & Science becom- United States with a mentous Event,’” next page.) ing a division of CFI. mission of promoting “Secularism is on the ascendency in The Center for Inquiry, a nonprofit ed- the United States and beyond,” Robyn ucational, advocacy, and research orga- secularism and science. Blumner observed. “Science has proven to nization, is home to our Committee for be the engine of human progress. Bringing Skeptical Inquiry and SKEPTICAL INQUIRER more resources and ambition to promoting magazine and the Council for Secular Hu- these forces of reason is what this merger The January 21 announcement (http:// manism and Free Inquiry magazine. Now is about. I am thrilled to be tapped to lead www.centerforinquiry.net/newsroom/ it will also be home to the RDFRS and its this joint effort and expand on what Ron cfi_dawkins_merger/) said CFI and RDFRS programs. Lindsay has built.” (Also see her note to SI planned to begin unified operations im- Blumner became CEO of the combined readers, next page.) entity on January 25, 2016. Lindsay re- mediately, although the merger will not For his part, Richard Dawkins said this: tains the title of president until the merger become final until later this spring after is complete and will work closely with necessary legal and regulatory approval. I am very pleased that my foundation Blumner during the transition period. The merged organization will be the larg- is about to join forces with the Center est in the United States with a mission of for Inquiry. CFI is the biggest player Before heading up the RDFRS, Blumner, in the secular/nonreligious/skeptical a lawyer, had been a syndicated columnist promoting secularism and science, with an world, and I like to hope that RDFRS annual budget in excess of $6 million and will have something to add to its already for the Tampa Bay Times and the head of a staff of about forty-five employees. flourishing enterprise. In turn, among statewide affiliates of the American Civil our projects which will benefit from a Liberties Union in Florida and Utah. CFI will maintain its main headquarters larger team of professionals are Openly Dawkins, the noted evolutionary biol- in Amherst, New York. Both CFI and RDFRS Secular and the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES). I look for- ogist and author, will become a member have executive offices in Washington, D.C., ward to adding my voice to CFI’s focus of the CFI Board of Directors, along with and these will be combined. CFI branches on promoting secular humanism and the two other directors of RDFRS, once the in Los Angeles and other cities will be re- fighting the proliferation of pseudosci- ence. I am also especially delighted merger is complete. He has long been a tained. that Robyn Blumner, the present CEO fellow of the Committee for Skeptical In- “I am absolutely delighted that I’m of RDFRS, is to become the President quiry and a prominent advocate for good closing out my tenure at CFI by helping to and CEO of the whole organization. Ron Lindsay is truly (forgive the cliché) a science and opponent of pseudoscience in bring about a merger between RDFRS and hard act to follow. If anyone can do it, all its forms. CFI,” Lindsay said in the announcement. Robyn can. Skeptical Inquirer | May/June 2016 5 Center for Inquiry and that their president Note to SI Readers from and CEO, Robyn Blumner, will be the new CEO of the combined organizations, which New CEO Robyn Blumner will work under the name of the Center for Inquiry. I know what you must be thinking: An CFI and RDFRS both seek to make the atheist, ACLU-loving lawyer, and writer world a better place for all, religious and known for legal and ideological battles nonreligious alike, by untangling faith and with Mormons in Utah and evangelicals in pseudoscience from government, pro- Florida, what can she know about science moting critical thinking and skepticism, and skepticism? and advocating for science and reason in And you would have a point. all areas of public life. Each organization My chosen profession and, to be frank, brings unique strengths to the table, and my skill set lean toward the humanities. given the similarity in their missions, these But science fills me with awe. I come from two organizations are an excellent match. a family in which science was held in the This is a momentous event not only for highest esteem. My dad graduated from Ronald A. Lindsay: our organization but for the entire secular the Bronx High School of Science, and had his love for soccer not interfered—he ‘A Momentous Event’ and skeptic movement. This new Center for Inquiry is now the largest freethought played semi-pro for a time—he would have organization in the United States, and the gone into biology as a career. Instead, he Ron Lindsay posted this blog entry on the taught public school and shared his pas- combined talents, resources, and passion CFI website January 21, 2016: sion for science (and soccer) with genera- of CFI and RDFRS will allow the Center for tions of students. As you might recall, last year I announced Inquiry to have a greater impact than ever. that I would be stepping down as pres- We begin working together as one unified ident and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, organization beginning right now. to make way for new leadership in 2016 And I can’t wait for you to get to know “I am thrilled and honored [see “The Future of CFI,” SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, Robyn Blumner. An extremely accom- to be CEO of the Center September/October 2015]. I said then that plished and deeply respected lawyer, ac- I wanted to give the CFI board of directors tivist, journalist, and nonprofit executive, for Inquiry, a place where ample time to find a highly qualified new Robyn has lifted RDFRS to new heights. evidence matters.” chief executive. Consistent with my hopes There is no one better at this time to lead and expectations, the board has found a the Center for Inquiry. She will formally be- talented, experienced leader for CFI. come CFI’s CEO on Monday, January 25. Even before my connection to the Rich- As for Richard Dawkins himself, CFI is ard Dawkins Foundation, I was an avid Each organization brings thrilled to be associated with one of the reader of Richard Dawkins’s books. Like preeminent public intellectuals of our time, Carl Sagan, Richard is a master commu- unique strengths to the and we’re all eager to take full advantage nicator of science to a lay audience. For table, and given the of his wisdom, intelligence, and eloquence me, these men provided a window into the as perhaps the world’s foremost communi- workings of the evidence-based world. similarity in their cator of science and secularism. As to the work of the Center for Inquiry, missions, these two For me, I will retain the title of president some may see skepticism and secularism of CFI for a brief period during the transi- as distinct and separate endeavors. I see organizations are an tion. I will do all I can to ensure that this them as overlapping and reinforcing. They excellent match. new CFI gets off to a smooth and success- derive from the same source: a willingness ful start. to put truth claims to the test. And when Surely you will have a lot of ques- that happens, humanity benefits in pro- What I could not have expected, but I tions, and we’ll do our best to answer found and tangible ways. am delighted to share with you now, is that them. For now, you can get more in- I am thrilled and honored to be CEO in finding a wonderful new CEO, CFI has formation about this merger at our of the Center for Inquiry, a place where also made an unprecedented move to be- F.A.Q. at this link (http://www.center evidence matters, and the truth gets puts come stronger and more effective than ever. forinquiry.net/pages/cfi_dawkins_faq/). through its paces for the good of us all. I am delighted to tell you today that the And please join me in warmly welcom- Thank you to everyone for the kind and Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason ing Robyn Blumner, Richard Dawkins, and generous welcome. & Science has agreed to merge with the all at RDFRS to the Center for Inquiry. 6 Volume 40 Issue 3 | Skeptical Inquirer.
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