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 & Comms at the American Humanist Association, where she helped organise the landmark 2012 Reason Rally and edited for TheHumanist.com. She later joined PFLAG National as VP of Development, bringing her fundraising and advocacy skills to LGBTQ+ rights work.

As President of the Secular Coalition for America, 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 reproductive rights, secularism and equality, and has appeared on NPR, The Washington Post and Fox News.