Groups
Camp Quest Chesapeake
Mary Bellamy, board member
1914 Kentsdale Lane
Vienna, VA 22182
703-506-9612
CQChesapeake@gmail.com
virginia.camp-quest.org
CQ Chesapeake provides a residential summer camp experience based on secular humanist and freethought philosophy and values.
Capital Beltway Atheists
Shelley Mountjoy and Christopher Arntzen, Co-Organizers
Post Office Box 21350
Washington, D.C. 20009-0350
202-285-3298
DCAtheists@gmail.com
http://www.meetup.com/WashingtonDC-Atheists/
http://www.meetup.com/beltwayatheists
CBA meets across DC, MD, and VA for social, activist, educational, and philanthropic events.
Center for Inquiry DC
Melody Hensley, Executive Director
1020 19th Street NW Suite 425
Washington, DC 20036
202-629-2403
dc@centerforinquiry.net
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/dc
CFI DC offers an opportunity to put your principles into practice by joining other rationalists to work for positive change in society.
DC Region Atheists
Don Wharton, organizer
Washington, DC
202-643-4366
don1wharton@gmail.com
www.meetup.com/DC-Atheists/
DC Region Atheists is formally organized as a chapter of the Washington Area Secular Humanists. The primary emphasis is on informal community building and more engaged secular activism. Our primary web presence will be with the DC Atheists Meetup. The goal of engagement with political and religious groups is seen to be critical in advancing separation of church and state and increasing the positive regard for secularism and critical thinking.
District of Columbia Atheists, Incorporated
John Beers, Secretary
Post Office Box 21350
Washington, D.C. 20009-0350
202-285-3298
DCAtheists@gmail.com
http://www.dcatheists.org/
DCA is a formally organized representative democracy intending to promote the contributions of nonreligious individuals to society and to maintain separation of state and church.
Gay Atheists of Washington DC (GAWD)
Christopher Arntzen, Assistant Organizer
Post Office Box 21350
Washington, D.C. 20009-0350
gawdonline@gmail.com
www.Meetup.com/GAWDonline
GAWD is intended to meet the needs of gay men and lesbian women in the atheist community, but sympathetic freethinkers, regardless of sexual preference or identity, are welcome to join.
George Washington University Secular Society
President: Julie Mankowski
skeptic@gwu.edu
Twitter: @GWSKEPTIC
http://gwsecularsociety.webs.com
GWSS intends to unify and represent like-minded individuals who believe in scientific reason and the strict separation of church and state. Our Constitution strictly declares that the Secular Society will aim to end discrimination and intolerance against secular-minded people, as well as to promote awareness of scientific progress and church-state relations in the United States and across the globe.
Liprepensadores Washington DC
Contact: Lorena Rios
http://www.meetup.com/Librepensadores/
Machar
The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism
Roz Seidenstein, Executive Director
P.O. Box 24014
Washington, DC 20015
202-686-1881
info@machar.org
www.machar.org
Machar is a member-driven community which thrives on diversity. Our member families often come from different cultures, countries, and religious belief systems.
Maryland-DC Chapter
Washington Area Secular Humanists
Gary Berg-Cross, Coordinator
13 Atwell Ct
Potomac MD, 20854
240-426-0770
gbergcross@gmail.com
http://mdc.wash.org/
The Maryland DC (MDC) Chapter of WASH meets the third Saturday of each month, September through June, unless otherwise noted. Meetings are held in libraries of the Montgomery County system in Maryland near Washington DC. Currently we are meeting in the Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Ave. Chevy Chase, MD.
Northern Virgina Chapter
Washington Area Secular Humanists
Jason Torpy, Coordinator
http://www.meetup.com/humanism-218
http://nvc.wash.org/
The Northern Virginia Chapter of Washington Area Secular Humanists meets in Fairfax and Alexandria. We aim to promote scientific literacy, critical thinking and a forum to explore humanist principles and how they relate to all aspects of the human experience.
Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NoVES)
Jone Johnson Lewis, Leader
P.O. Box 984
Vienna, VA 22183
noves@noves.org
http://www.noves.org/web/
NoVES is a religious and educational community in Northern Virginia, dedicated to building a more humane world by bringing out the best in others and ourselves.
Secular Student Alliance (George Mason University)
Roy Roberts, Media Contact
gmu@secularstudents.org
http://www.secularstudents.org/gmu
Secular Students at Howard University
SecularStudentsHU@gmail.com
UMD Freethought
University of Maryland
David Markum, President
College Park, MD, 20740
btrettel@umd.edu (Ben Trettel, contact)
http://sites.google.com/site/umdfreethought/
UMD Freethought aims to unite to create a community for the non-religious and non-religious-friendly at the University of Maryland, College Park.
UUCF Humanist Group
Mary K. Bellamy, facilitator
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax
2709 Hunter Mill Rd.
Oakton, VA 22124
mary.k.bellamy@gmail.com
703-506-9612
The mission and purpose of the group is to recognize and nurture those within UUCF whose beliefs and values orientation is primarily exemplified by Humanist thought.
Friends of the Washington DC Coalition of Reason
Friends are not members of the Washington CoR but support our mission; these organizations are located in the greater Washington DC Metropolitan Area.
African Americans for Humanism DC (AAH-DC)
Melody Hensley, Contact
mhensley@centerforinquiry.net
http://www.meetup.com/AAH-DC/
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
Elizabeth Cornwell, Executive Director
Metro Center
1200 G Street NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.richarddawkins.net
