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Katie Kish
Website: http://liberal-debutante.com
Email: KatieKish@theedger.org
Katie Kish is a near graduate from York University in Environmental Studies and Music. This is her fourth University in four years and has previously majored in geography, physics, religion, philosophy, math, computer science, geology....etc.
She has long been involved with freethought campus activism starting at the University of Victoria, where she dipped her feet in by starting the radio show Renegade Radio, a nationally syndicated program about secularism and science, that is still kicking strong today. Soon after she moved to Guelph where she became the president of the University of Guelph Skeptics club, co-founder of this darling site, Edger and vice president of the Freethought Association of Canada.
Katie is now the assistant director and field organizer for the Centre For Inquiry - Ontario and regional director for western Ontario campus groups. Despite being the leader of so many groups and being so active she holds a very different opinion of religions than most others on this site. She has a deep respect and psychological draw to those who are religious. She is against religion that infringes on the lives of others and the state, but not that which gives people comfort and closure and meaning in life. More specifically her interests are in science education, paleontology, social issues caused by religion and criticizing everything that everyone does - religious or not.
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Factoista is an online freethought advocacy organization that relies on its users for content. Through international broad-based collaboration with its users, and other groups and organizations, it strives to provide timely and comprehensive news, views, reviews, and creative multimedia on issues at the forefront of everything under the umbrella of freethought:
1. Defending civil liberties like freedoms of speech, inquiry, information, religion or lack thereof, and association
2. Opposing misinformation, pseudoscience, and quackery
3. Commenting on the intersection of religion with politics, science, human rights, and academia
4. Discussing media misinformation and reform, environmental defense, and human rights.
5., Defending and supporting the continued growth of the Internet as a central enabler of idea and information sharing, social organization, advocacy and political participation. Relevant issues include net neutrality, the social impact of the Net and various programs (e.g., the blogosphere, social networking and news aggregator applications, search engines), and means of enhancing netroots advocacy.
5. Contribute significantly to the expansion, coordination and social/political import and impact of humanism and freethought.
Factonista is about putting people before ideas, reason before superstition, and evidence before faith. It’s about being team players (i.e., putting reason, honesty, civility first), as we can achieve far more in collaboration than in isolation. And it’s about making the most of our creativity, diverse skills and backgrounds to contribute to a collective intelligence that will have influence far and wide.
