Atheists United is thrilled to host multiple elected officials from this month's Pop Up Speaker Series! The founders of a new organization, the Association of Secular Elected Officials, will be joining us for a presentation on their new projects and how they hope to reshape American politics.
ASEO was conceived of by Leonard Presberg and Ron Millar at the beginning of 2020 and following a pandemic-related hiatus, formally convened its first Board Meeting in December 2020. The Association of Secular Officials, Inc, is a Georgia Non-Profit Corporation and has applied for IRS 501(c)(3) status.
Leonard Presberg, Founder and President of ASEO, has been a member of the Fayette County School Board since December 2011 and is a former Chair of the Fayette Democratic Committee. Leonard graduated with a BA from Oberlin College and a JD, magna cum laude, from University of Richmond. He is a former preschool teacher and currently serves as the CFO for Women’s Medical Center.
Charlene Komar Storey, Secretary of ASEO, is a former council member, councilwoman at large, and council president in Roselle Park, N.J. A native New Yorker who also has lived in California, she spent most of her life in the Garden State. Charlene holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from New Jersey’s Thomas Edison State University. She is a veteran business-press editor and writer. She also has written on a variety of topics for general-interest publications that include The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Examiner, Irish America magazine, and many more.
Danny Choriki, Treasurer of ASEO, was born and raised in Montana but moved to New York City in his twenties to figure out how people cope with rapid social and technical changes and how to encourage humans to pay more attention to long-term dangers such as climate change. An environmental social scientist, Choriki has been a humanist all of his life and a non-theist since high school, He has been involved in politics and culture, and social change all of his life. Choriki is currently a member of the Billings City Council in Montana. He has been the President of the Billings Association of Humanists since 2013 and has worked to advance public policy driven by science and data.
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Atheists United’s Pop Up Speaker Series was launched in 2020 to serve our membership’s hunger for interaction with authors, activists, and speakers on the cutting edge of modern freethought.
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