Outreach Committee
Brian D. Engler is the Chair of the Center for Inquiry–DC Advisory Board. He is an active Friend of the Center and dedicated volunteer for CFI–DC. Brian's background includes service in the U.S. Navy, in industry as an operations research analyst, and in the non-profit sector as Executive Vice President of an international professional educational association. He has earned a BS in Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, an MS in Operations Research, and an MBA in Finance and Accounting. An amateur photographer, his work has been published in Secular Nation, Skeptical Inquirer, and several northern Virginia newspapers. A long-time resident of the National Capital area, Brian is committed to community volunteerism, critical thinking, science, reason, and a secular society. Brian was recognized as the Center for Inquiry–DC's Freethinker of the Year 2009.
Sarah Hippolitus received her M.A. in Philosophy from Virginia Tech and B.A. in Philosophy from James Madison University. She has worked for the federal government for the past four years in recruitment and contract management. Her passions include philosophy, secular morality, atheism, psychology, neuroscience, volunteering (especially tutoring), writing, and promoting science, reason, and secular values. Sarah has been published in Virginia Tech’s newspaper in 2005 for a piece arguing for the removal of a religious display of the Ten Commandments from an Alabama courthouse. More recently, she has been published in The Washington Post’s Express newspaper for a piece entitled “Let Atheists Speak, Too” in response to the religious backlash regarding the London Atheist Bus Ads that ran in 2008. Volunteering for CFI has given her a feeling of purpose, fulfillment, belonging, and camaraderie with great people who share her secular, scientific perspective.
Beth Kingsley is a member of the Center for Inquiry–DC Advisory Board. Beth is a graduate of Oberlin College with a major in Russian Language and Literature, and has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She works at a small law firm representing nonprofit organizations. She has held a personal commitment to the ideals of the Center for decades, but only discovered the organized skeptical movement a few years ago. Beth became a Friend of the Center in 2009 and is excited to support CFI–DC as a member of the Advisory Board and Outreach Committee. She is a cat person.
Steven Lowe has been a volunteer for the DC office since its inception in 2006. He is on the board of directors of Washington Area Secular Humanist (WASH), an affiliated group of CSH and CFI and is active in reviving the memory of and teaching about the “Great Agnostic," Robert Green Ingersoll. He retired in 2000 from a career in the telecommunications industry that took him around the world. As a volunteer in the Peace Corps he taught high school math in French in Zaire, Africa. He spends his time working for a progressive, secular and gay friendly America. A native Virginian, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia and his MBA at George Washington University. He currently resides in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC amidst an enclave of Catholic institutions!
