Derek Araujo

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Araujo, Derek Carl (17 September 1976 - )

Araujo is an attorney in New York City. He received an A.B. in physics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1999, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2004. At Harvard College he founded the Harvard Secular Society and served as its first president. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Humanist Chaplaincy.

Araujo was a founder and the first president of the Campus Freethought Alliance, now “CFI On-Campus,” which organized humanist student communities nationwide. At Harvard Law School he served on the executive board of the HLS American Constitution Society and was a Senior Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

In 1998 he was a signer of the Alliance’s “Bill of Rights for Unbelievers.”

Author of “Student Freethought Group Embarks on Productive Path” in Free Inquiry (Winter 1996—1997), he was a signer of Humanist Manifesto 2000.

Today, he is a member of the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center and the Council for Secular Humanism’s First Amendment Task Force. He also sits on the Board of Directors of both the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry.

In May 2007 he was appoined as the Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City.

In 2009, he remains in New York City, having been promoted to General Counsel for CFI-International.

{International Humanist News, December 1996}