Beverly Church
President
[Statement not yet provided.]

Mynga Futrell
Vice-President
"I have greatly enjoyed serving AOF in many capacities -- as president, vice-president, newsletter layout, newsletter editor, and on committees and projects. That this organization is dear to my heart is no secret. Among my major projects for AOF is coauthorship on its behalf of the amicus curiae brief for the Mike Newdow Pledge case that went to the Supreme Court. For several years, I have represented AOF on the board of the Atheist Alliance International (AAI), attending each annual meeting in various locations across the country. In that capacity I advanced AOF to receive the first AAI Community Service Award ever presented to a local group, winning AOF $500 along with the recognition. As AOF president, I initiated what became the annual Freethought Day Fair. I continue to serve on the Freethought Day organizing committee. I co-chair Sacramento's Darwin Day Galas. Both community events garner increasingly notable speakers. In general, I have urged a synergistic cooperation with other local secular and humanist groups. As vice president, I have stepped up several times to fill in when the current president was unavailable. As an AOF charter member and co-founder, you'd think I'd be all worn out by now. But, I'm not - not yet, anyway! No, I continue to be a workhorse for this organization. On top of the above, I manage the AOF voicemail, and help with community charity work when possible. I see AOF as an indispensable resource for freethinkers in the Sacramento area. We need more and younger members, creative programs and more social involvement, and all without losing sight of our mission. That mission is immensely worthwhile and needs more coordinated attention than it has been receiving, as there are all-too-many major challenges to atheists' legitimacy as citizens. Together we can do wonders!"

Jillian Stanley
Secretary
"I more usually serve on the sidelines of any organization to which I belong (make cookies or put away chairs), but I will gladly do what I can to keep AOF viable and continuously improving. We've had discussion both in the monthly meetings and in the coffeehouse afterward about reaching out, gaining more members, etc, and that challenge particularly interests me. My own attitudes and beliefs may be idiosyncratic—I have been an avowed atheist since about the age of fifteen, yet I do not necessarily deny and denounce every concept that seems mystical or every nuance of spirituality—but I would prefer a world with much less religion in it, and being more active in AOF, I would take a small step toward that goal."

Ken Nahigian
Treasurer, Registrar
Ken has served not only as Board member but also as AOF treasurer & registrar. Almost but not quite an AOF founder, he joined AOF in December 1993, became Treasurer in 1995 and Membership Registrar in 2004. His small, brittle, blinkered mind finds an obscure joy in balanced columns and niggling minutia, making him ideal for such detail work. Before joining AOF, Ken had a checkered history of religious belief and doubt, weighed with deep guilt. The guilt was crushing and the occasional bouts of stigmata were messy. In his mid-20's he became a freethinker. Finding the freethought community was like a first breath of sweet fresh air. He still looks back, but ever with a sigh of relief. Ken's vision for AOF is to pinch pennies, sell buttons and bumper stickers, and keep us solvent. As registrar he works to expand AOF's membership. As a Director he hopes to build bridges to the many other freethought and skeptical groups within the Sacramento area, creating a true Community of Reason. Finally and most, as a freethinker and humanist, his views continue to evolve. Once stridently anti-religious, he now sees opportunity for cooperative action between AOF and many open-minded believers. "Freethought has escaped the intellectual ghetto that held it for almost a century; the horizon is open if our hearts are open, and if we do not fear to adapt and change."

Dave Flanders
Director at Large
Dave has served on the AOF Board several times in the past, and looks forward to serving again. In his words: "As a child I was brought up as a catholic. As a teenager I became a ratcheted up sky god believer. Over the years I have attempted to be a upgraded defender of atheist. As a freethinker I sometimes enjoy attempting to think outside the box in the land of freethinking."

Brian Kent Jones
Director at Large, Program Chair
"As an active member of AOF and the freethought community in the greater Sacramento area for the last four to five years, I am for the first time offering to serve on AOF's board of directors. Let me begin by letting you know some of my related activities. In the past four years I've been involved with AOF, HAGSA, Flying Spaghetti Monster Pastover Celebration (aka spaghetti feed) and Freethought Day all in organizational capacities (board member, program committee, primary organizer and sound/logistics respectively.) I am the publicity coordinator for all of the above and Darwin Day. In addition, I am a member of the Brights, Atheists United, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, FAN Meetup, and FACTS Church. In 2008 I attended the Atheist Alliance International Conference in Long Beach. As an AOF board member, I would be likely to follow a path true to the organization's roots as I understand them -- promoting atheism throughout the community as a positive world view – demonstrating that atheists are positive, productive and social. I am currently a student studying law to become a paralegal. In the past I have been a database administrator, bookkeeper, office manager and general manager for companies such as a benefit insurance brokerage, major insurance carrier, catering company, private real estate concern and plastics injection molding plant among others. I hold an Associates degree in business."

Mario Sandri
Director at Large
"Though born into a family that was nominally catholic - I guess it was just kind of the norm to be catholic in that particular region of the world that I grew up in - I never bought into any of it, like almost everybody else I knew from my generation. As a result there was never a need to be outspoken about my non-believe. If you went to church, that meant you didn't have any friends and there was something wrong with YOU. When I moved here things were a little different. It is exciting to see so many local groups emerging and I see one of AOF's primary missions in the future to focus more on networking with other groups as well reaching out to the community and to the ones that are seeking for alternatives to religious stupor. Let's not just preach to the choir and talk about how few atheists are in prison and that the states in the Bible Belt have much higher crime and abortion rates, more teen pregnancies etc., we all know that. Let's go out and mingle with the ones that have open minds but would never think of atheists as valuable members of their communities. This is how I believe we can change the world!"

Paul Geisert
Director at Large
"Maintaining the foundations of the organization is a worthy endeavor. 'The purpose of the association, Atheists and Other Freethinkers, is to promote the civic understanding and acceptance of atheism in our community. To accomplish this purpose, AOF will, through educational programs, projects, and publications, extend atheistic perspectives concerning the separation of church and state and the right to think and speak freely on these perspectives.' I would like to see AOF actually engage the above statement."

Kevin L. Schultz
Newsletter Editor
[Statement not yet posted.]

Jerry Sloan
AOF Postmaster (newsletter distribution)
Jerry Sloan is a charter member of AOF and as such has served on the board and various committees. He is a nationally recognized for his research on Religious extremeists in California and the nation.  He is also well known for his famous lawsuit against his former Baptist Bible College schoolmate, the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. With some of the proceeds from the lawsuit he co-founded the Gay & Lesbian Community Center.

Don Knutson
Service Project Coordinator
Don is a long time member of AOF who believes strongly that logic and reason provide a deeper and more visceral connection to morality than ancient writ absorbed by a believer. And naturally, compassion for animals, disadvantaged peoples and the planet become a lifelong dedication.

Pat Kelley
Webmistress
[Statement not yet providd.]