Dale McGowan

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Dale McGowan (28 February 1963 - )

McGowan attended the University of California, Berkeley (Physical Anthropology, Music Theory, 1986), the University of California, Los Angeles (1988), California State, Northridge (1991), and the University of Minnesota (Ph. D., Composition, 1999).

In 2006, he left a 15-year career as a college professor to pursue writing full-time. He edited and co-authored Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, resources for nonreligious parents. He writes the secular parenting blog The Meming of Life, teaches nonreligious parenting seminars across the United States, and serves as executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a humanist charitable and educational foundation based in Atlanta, Georgia.

In September 2008 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year by the Humanist Association of Massachusetts.

In 2009, McGowan served as U.S. Communications Coordinator for Nonviolent Peaceforce, a global civilian peacekeeping organization based in Brussels. While living in Minneapolis, he was a charter member of the Critical Thinking Club, Inc., and has taught critical thinking skills in the college classroom, the corporate boardroom, and public venues.

He and his wife Becca, a first grade teacher, live near Atlanta with their three children: Delaney, Connor, and Erin.

(See "Atheists' Collection Plate, With Religious Inspiration," an April 2010 article in The New York Times.)