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Robin Blumner spent 16 years as a nationally syndicated columnist

and editorial writer at the Tampa Bay Times newspaper

where she wrote a lot about civil liberties, church state separation, and free speech

issues. In 2012 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, along with the rest of her editorial team.

Before she was writing professionally, she headed up ACLU affiliates in Florida and Utah.

She entered the world of organized atheism, if you will, in 2014 when she was tapped to run the Richard Dawkins Foundation.

Recently, RDF announced a merger with the Center for Inquiry, and Robin will soon become

CEO of the newly merged organization.

So Robin, thanks so much for joining me.

Well, thank you for having me. And actually my first day was January 25th. So I am on board. You are on board. So how did you get involved with the atheism world?

Because that seems like a far cry from certainly

writing for a newspaper, but even from the ACLU.

It's not that far afield from the ACLU in some ways because there are a lot of overlapping

interests, particularly around church state separation.

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