Evan Clark is the founder and creative director of Spectrum Experience, the nation's first private

humanist consulting firm that has also been behind the campaigns of several atheists running

for local, state, and federal office.

His candidates just had a wildly successful primary day in Arizona this past week.

Evan is also chair of the Secular Student Alliance and co-host of the Humanist Experience Podcast.

Evan, thanks so much for being with me.

Yeah, excited to be here.

Okay, so tell me about this idea of the spectrum experience and what it is because I think in

atheist circles anyway this is really unusual to have kind of like a communications

group a PR firm that really is functioning as like a consulting firm for

atheists trying to run for office.

How does that even begin?

Absolutely.

So Rob Lane, my business partner, we actually met at a secular student

alliance conference, oh man in 2011. We were both speakers at the time she was the lobbyist, the full-time staff

member for the secular coalition of Arizona doing First Amendment work out here in Arizona and I was just graduated from

college just joined the Board of Directors of the National Secular

Student Alliance and was just founding a community group out in California at the time and

we just connected for the first time, right?

And from there we went back to the awesome stuff we were doing in different states but we kind of

followed each other's activism for a few years and I started this company out in

California to actually work on social justice education.

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