Matt Nawrocki is a native of Pittsburgh, PA and a transplant of Phoenix, AZ, with a love for nature, motorcycling, technology, and photography. Importantly, as a recovering Roman Catholic, Matt sees a need for further representation of a small, yet growing, cohort of secular individuals in more politically conservative circles.

Fred Schein lives in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. He has been an active member of both his county and state GOP for more than a decade including being county vice chairman and a sat party delegate. He has been a local and state leader of Log Cabin Republicans for 12 years and is the leadership Chair for Log Cabin Republicans of California. He has founded five of the organization’s 11 chapters. He was instrumental in having the state party include Log Cabin as an official part of the party, a national first and still only accomplishment. He was key in getting his Republican County central committee to support marriage equality. It remains the only Republican County committee in the country to have done so. He is a long-time speaker at California and Nevada College Republican and YAL campus chapters and has been a keynote speaker at their conventions. He maintains a large network of alumni. Fred is a six-year Naval officer veteran with service in Naval Intelligence and two years as executive officer of a river patrol base in Vietnam. He is an avid skier and past present of the Northern California Gay Ski Club. Additionally, he is past commissioner of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Softball League. He is active in community service projects. He has become active in organizations focused on reducing hostile polarization in politics. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and is widely traveled. He has visited every state and lived in six of them. Raised as a nominal Roman Catholic, Fred became an unswerving atheist at age seven and is enthusiastic about civilly debating it. Fun fact. Fred has not missed an election since he became eligible and has voted by mail from Panama, Italy, Vietnam, the UK and twice from north of the Artic Circle.

Sofia Figueroa-Cruz is a rising senior at Florida International University where she is pursuing her B.S. in Public Policy. Before joining the AFL team Sofia served as South Florida State Chair for Young Americans for Liberty and currently holds leadership positions on her campus’ College Republicans and Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity chapters. As both a libertarian and an atheist, she is passionate about ensuring there is space in the political landscape for individuals who champion both liberty and secularism and looks forward to contributing to AFL’s mission.

Bruce Honningford began his lengthy involvement in the atheist movement as a
member of the Minnesota chapter of American Atheists and continued his activism as a
member of Minnesota Atheists. He was the director and host of the television and radio
show “Atheist Talk,” which discussed various areas of interest such as humanism and
secularism.

Ryan Tuttle is a former Jehovah’s Witness and Ministerial Servant and Pioneer from a
Spanish language congregation. Ryan is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Behavioral Science and works as a graduate educator and researcher. As an atheist convert and freethinker, he strives to combat tribalism, the rejection of science, and intellectual or moral authoritarianism in the skeptic community.

Dan Joseph is a staunch supporter of the United States Constitution and is committed
to preserving Enlightenment Values. He believes America is at a crucial turning point
where it has become absolutely necessary to uphold and promote the ideas and beliefs
brought forth by our Founding Fathers.

Quinn Bauer is a University of North Dakota alumnus who briefly led a Young Americans for Liberty chapter at the University of Minnesota. While he spends most of his time working for Jimmy John's, which enabled him to graduate debt-free, he has been deeply interested in politics his entire adult life, and his biggest influences include Thomas Sowell, Ben Shapiro, Milton Friedman, John Stossel, and Adam Smith among many others. He also appreciates the work of atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Bill Maher, who while being to the left of him politically, are reasonable people who have successfully debunked many talking points made by both the Christian Right and leftists who make excuses for radical Islam. As someone who grew up in a left-wing household that was formerly Catholic and was once left of center, he believes he can follow in the footsteps of others who have come to reject bad ideas and be a successful advocate for the principles of the organization.

Sylvia Benner is a transplant from Germany to Oregon, where she co-founded Center for Inquiry Portland and co-led the group for over 9 years. A dyed-in-the-wool classical liberal, she has been in search of sanity and reason in what is left of the atheist movement. Coming up short, she has devoted her efforts to more profitable pursuits, such as family, business, riding her BMW F800 GS, and building an earthen oven for perfect sourdough bread. She hopes to increase the quantity of liberalism in atheism in her role as Oregon State Director of AFL. In her working life, she is an ATA-certified freelance technical translator and currently serves on the board of the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters.

Jacob Minas is a lifelong atheist. One of his earliest memories is arguing with his philosophy professor parents about the non-existence of Santa Claus. Presently Minas is a ski bum and retired lawyer. He also is involved in conservative political and legal groups such as the Salt Lake County Republican Party, the Federalist Society and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Minas is involved in Jewish and Latter-Day Saint organizations and seeks to build bridges between atheists and god-believers who all love freedom.

Joseph (Jake) Klein is a writer and filmmaker. He is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of The Black Sheep. Prior to founding The Black Sheep, Jake was the Director of Media Production at the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) and ran the Capital Research Center’s Dangerous Documentaries division, where he served as executive producer on the feature film No Safe Spaces and producer on the Politically Incorrect Guide animated series, amongst other projects. Jake’s writing has has appeared in Quillette, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, and he's the author of the upcoming book Redefining Racism: How Racism Became “Power + Prejudice”. Jake came to atheism out of Modern Orthodox Judaism, inspired by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins. He is also a libertarian most influenced by Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, and Ron Paul.