“The most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” - Kurt Vonnegut



How can the practice of humanism act as an antidote to America's crisis of loneliness and purposelessness? And how can the humanist movement catalyze Vonnegut's dream of "stable communities" for the tens of millions of secular Americans who need it now more than ever? From theory to neuroscience to practice, from Abraham Maslow and John Dewey to Quinta Brunson and Kurt Vonnegut, American Humanist Association Executive Director Fish Stark presents an expansive vision for framing humanism as the opposite of loneliness and engaging the 40 million dormant humanists in America.



Fish Stark, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association, is a self-proclaimed developmental psychology nerd who is passionate about giving everyone the tools to live lives of meaning, service, and self-determination, Fish holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and a Bachelor’s from Yale University. Fish lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where he is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis.

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