Outreach Staff
Dren Asselmeier is the campus coordinator for CFI Michigan. She started volunteering for CFI Michigan in the winter of 2008 and focused on campus outreach as part of an internship with CFI in the spring of 2009. She is the former president and current vice president of the CFI-affiliated campus group at GVSU and is a senior at Grand Valley State University.
Lauren Becker, VP and Director of Outreach, is a science and nature interpreter who has taught at museums, parks, and planetariums around the country. Known for her commentaries on Point of Inquiry, the radio show and podcast of CFI, she is an experienced environmental activist and advocate for science literacy and education.
Michael De Dora Jr. is Executive Director of CFI New York City, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in political science at Brooklyn College, where he focuses on American government and political philosophy. De Dora spent his undergraduate years at SUNY Albany, studying how to best communicate using both the pen and spoken word. He graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication and a minor in journalism. After graduating, De Dora worked as a writer and editor for FOX News, and then The City University of New York (CUNY). He got his start with CFI in 2008, when he volunteered to start CFI's Brooklyn community.
Debbie Goddard's background is in volunteering and campus and community organizing. Before coming to work for CFI as a field organizer, she volunteered for years with CFI’s campus outreach initiative on the local and national level. She has been involved with church-state separation and secular activism, as well as with GLBT and progressive issues, for many years.
Melody Hensley is the Executive Director of CFI Washington DC. Ms. Hensley has a background in volunteering and community organizing. She has been involved with church-state separation and secular activism, as well as reproductive rights and progressive issues, in the DC area for over a decade. Prior to her latest role, she served as the CFI DC event and volunteer coordinator.
Dan Riley is a field organizer for the Center for Inquiry, and has experience working in the legal profession and as an organizer in a U.S. Presidential election. He holds a B.A. in political science from Duke University.
Jeff Seaver is Vice President of a Michigan-based strategic marketing and graphic design firm, and Executive Director of CFI Michigan.
Justin Trottier is Executive Director of CFI Canada. Trottier has represented CFI on numerous television networks, such as CBC, CTS, OMNI, CH and CityTV, as well as dozens of radio appearances and coverage in campus, city and national newspapers. He is a contributor to Humanist Perspective magazine and the Point of Inquiry podcast.
Pam Walls is Executive Director of CFI Ontario. She graduated from the International Relations program at the University of Calgary in 2007 and traveled to Ghana as a student and India as a volunteer. She has maintained a blog on humanism, secularism, critical thinking and social activism since the fall of 2008, when she relocated to Toronto.
Reba Boyd Wooden is Executive Director of CFI Indiana. She founded the Humanist Friendship Group of Central Indiana in 1999, which transitioned into Center for Inquiry Community of Indiana in 2005 and opened a physical location as Center for Inquiry Indiana in April 2007. Reba spent 37 years in public education at the high school level, teaching psychology and social studies such as U.S. History for most of her career. She spent the last 13 years as a high school guidance counselor, retiring in 2005. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ACLU of Indiana.
Clare Wuellner, Executive Director of CFI Austin, has a Ph.D. in Entomology and has extensive experience in research and teaching in the field of biology. Her career in social action began in graduate school when she started a chapter of the non-profit group Women in Science. In the Austin community, she has been involved in numerous volunteer-based organizations.
