Michael De Dora
Center for Inquiry — New York, NY
Michael De Dora Jr. is Executive Director of CFI-New York City. In addition, he serves as director of CFI's Office of Public Policy, and as the organization's representative to the United Nations. Michael has a master's degree in political theory from Brooklyn College, and a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and communication from SUNY-Albany. He maintains the blog The Moral Perspective, and contributes essays on political and moral philosophy to Massimo Pigliucci's blog, Rationally Speaking. Before joining CFI, Michael was a news writer and editor at both FOXNews.com and the City University of New York. He got his start with CFI as a volunteer in 2008.
Expertise:- Critical thinking
- Gay marriage
- Humanistic and naturalistic ethics
- Philosophy of theism and atheism
- Religion and politics
- Religious liberty, and the civil rights of the non-religious
- Secular humanism
- Separation of church and state
- Sports
- The Center for Inquiry
- The humanist and skeptic movements
- The scientific and naturalistic worldview
