Christine Shellska

Christine Shellska is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research involves studying the rhetorical strategies employed by the Intelligent Design Creationism movement, and her areas of focus include history, philosophy and sociology of science, Actor Network Theory and rhetoric. Among other involvement in the secular community, she is a regular co-host on the Calgary-based Legion of Reason podcast, Director and Secretary of the American Humanist Association, Director of the Humanist Society, and Director and Past President of Atheist Alliance International. In the latter capacity, she addressed the UN, condemning mistreatment of LGBTQ+ people, female genital mutilation, and religious discrimination in accessing science-based education, health-care, and social services. She has delivered presentations at local venues (including guest lectures and debates), as well as at prominent conferences in Canada and the US, on various topics of interest to skeptics, humanists, secularists, and activists.