Maggie Ardiente

Maggie Ardiente is an American humanist leader, non-profit executive and advocate at the intersection of secularism, social justice and civil rights. In 2025 she was elected President of Humanists International, becoming the first woman of colour to lead the organisation.

Maggie served for 12 years as Director of Development & Communications at the American Humanist Association and editor of TheHumanist.com. She later joined PFLAG National as VP of Development, bringing her fundraising skills to LGBTQ+ rights work, and currently serves as Director of Philanthropy at Physicians for Social Responsibility, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning advocacy organisation for climate solutions and a nuclear weapons-free world.

As a Board Member and President of the Secular Coalition for America from 2020 to 2025, she led a coalition of 20 secular, humanist and atheist organisations working to defend religious freedom, separation of church and state and equal representation of nonreligious Americans.

She is a commentator on humanism, religious freedom, reproductive rights, and equality, and has appeared on NPR, The Washington Post and Fox News.