Robyn Blumner is the president & CEO of the Center for Inquiry, an organization that promotes reason, science, and secular values through education, litigation, and advocacy. She is also executive director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science. Prior to these posts Robyn was a nationally syndicated columnist and editorial writer at the Tampa Bay Times newspaper in Florida (formerly the St. Petersburg Times). She also headed up two affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union, first in Utah and then in Florida. Robyn has a law degree from New York University and a B.S. from Cornell University.