David A. Niose

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David A. Niose (20 August 1962 - )

Niose has been serving as President of the American Humanist Association (AHA) since January 2009. He has been an AHA board member since 2005 and served as Treasurer from 2005 to 2008.

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Niose is a graduate of Boston University School of Public Communication (B.S., Journalism, 1984) and Suffolk University Law School (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1990). He is an attorney.

Niose has worked in print and broadcast media, taught history and law, and written extensively on social and political issues. As chair of the AHA's Media Committee, Niose has helped promote Humanism in the national media in order to build awareness and acceptance of the Humanist worldview.

He has spoken to freethought groups around the country, emphasizing the importance of utilizing mass media to inject Humanist ideas into the public dialogue, improve the public image of Humanists, and sway public opinion away from the religious right. Niose also sits on the advisory panel of the Secular Coalition for America (SCA), and in 2004 he filed a complaint with the FCC on behalf of the SCA, protesting the granting of educational television channels to televangelists. He is a member of the Humanist Association of Massachusetts, the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), and a founding member of Greater Worcester Humanists.