Molleen Matsumura

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Matsumura, Molleen (day/month/year - )

Matsumura is a local humanist group leader in East Bay, Berkeley, California, the Network Project Director of the National Center for Science Education, an associate editor of Free Inquiry, a Secular Humanist Mentor of the Council for Secular Humanism, and a contributing editor of the Secular Humanist Bulletin. She is a past Vice President of Internet Infidels.

In 1991, she collaborated with Fang Fu Ruan, writing Sex in China. She also wrote Voices for Evolution (1995), a collection of the official position of many groups with regard to the teaching of evolution and creationism.

Matsumura is associate director of the National Center for Science Education. In her position, she has blamed America’s decentralized education system, which allows countless small decisions on what is taught in schools to be made at the local level.

Matsumura signed Humanist Manifesto 2000.

She has a regular column, "Sweet Reason," in the Institute for Humanist Studies e-zine. The column includes questions and answers about life-concerns and problems of humanists, secularists, and nonreligious individuals.

(The Economist, 17 August 1996; FD; Molleen Matsumura, “Pornography: A Business Like Any Other,” Free Inquiry, Fall 1997)