Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Mandisa Thomas as the next speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Mandisa Thomas is the founder and President of Black Nonbelievers, Inc. Although never formally indoctrinated into belief, Mandisa was heavily exposed to Christianity, Black Nationalism, and Islam. As a child she loved reading, and Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Randall Jensen as the next speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Randall Jenson​ is a queer, multiracial artist of color and the Creator and Director of SocialScope Productions, a consulting and coaching company focused on LGBTQ multimedia projects, cultural awareness and innovative youth program design Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Samantha Montano as the next speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Dr. Samantha Montano has a B.S. in psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and a Ph.D. in emergency management from North Dakota State University. She first became involved in disaster work during recovery in Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome back Kayley Whalen as our next speaker on the Skepticon 10 lineup! Kayley  is a queer activist and writer whose work has appeared in the Huffington Post, the Lambda-Award winning anthology Gender Outlaws the Next Generation, The Humanist magazine and numerous blogs. She is a vocal atheist, drug Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Mika McKinnon as our next speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Mika McKinnon is the disaster scientist behind the scenes that makes fiction stranger. We’re so excited to have them join us for our tenth year and we hope you are, too! Love, Skepticon P.S. Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Leighann Lord as our next speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Leighann Lord was the New York City face of the African Americans for Humanism outreach campaign sponsored by the Center for Inquiry and it’s Millions Living Happily Without Religion Campaign. Author Chris Johnson featured Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Ross Blocher as our next speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Ross Blocher emerged from a childhood filled with Bible memorization, literal Creationism, and many books about ghosts and aliens as an adult with a keen interest in belief and the paranormal. Along with his Read more
Hello Skepticon Lovers! Please welcome Laura Thomas (that’s right – SHE’S BACK!) as our very first speaker to the Skepticon 10 lineup! Laura Thomas is the deputy state director of the Drug Policy Institute, California, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She oversees the Institute’s municipal drug strategy work in Read more
You can’t spell fundraising without the fun! And we can’t put on an amazebananas free-to-attend Skepticon without the fundraising. Almost all of the money needed for Skepticon comes from donations by wonderful people like you. We also pledge that every penny donated to the conference goes to putting on Skepticon. Read more
Hello Skepticon lovers, Happy Tinnaversary! Get it? Because the traditional gift for ten years is tin? Ok, well nevermind about that… Registration is now open for Skepticon 10! Click the giant link above to sign up to be with us for our fanciest and tenthiest year ever. See you there! Read more