Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart

by Lex Bayer

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  About the Authors

  Lex Bayer grew up in the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa, where he attended a secular Jewish day school from kindergarten through high school. He moved to the United States for college. At Stanford University he received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in engineering while also being a member of the Stanford men’s soccer team and Stanford debate team.

  In his professional life, Lex is an inventor and technology entrepreneur. He holds more than twenty patents in diverse fields ranging from inertial sensors and software algorithms to consumer products and medical devices. He was the CEO and cofounder of a payments software company that grew to service five million customers and was ultimately acquired by Visa Inc. Lex has been a panelist and speaker at a number of social networking and web 2.0 conferences.

  Lex serves as a board member of the Humanist Connection, a humanist, atheist, and agnostic nonprofit organization serving Stanford University
and Silicon Valley. He lives in Menlo Park, California.

  John P. Figdor is the humanist chaplain serving the atheist, humanist, and agnostic communities at Stanford University. He organizes events and programs for both students and community members from the San Francisco Bay Area, provides officiant services and humanist counseling, and advocates for the secular perspective both on campus and off. John and his work have been discussed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a regular guest on Huffington Post Live on issues around nonbelief. He is a frequent speaker at secular conferences and local humanist groups across the United States. He received his bachelor’s degree with honors in philosophy from Vassar College and holds a master’s degree (MDiv) in humanism and interfaith dialogue from Harvard Divinity School—the first of its kind and the pilot program for the humanist chaplain training program at Harvard. John was an organizing fellow of the humanist chaplaincy at Harvard, and after he graduated he was later appointed to be the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard, where he served until becoming the humanist chaplain at Stanford in 2012.

  A transplanted New Yorker, he lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.