My name is Shawn and I’m 26 and currently serving in the Army.  I graduated from West Point with dual degrees in Economics and Business Management.  In the army I’ve been a platoon leader, company executive officer, battalion S-4, and an operations officer in Iraq. In addition to Iraq, I’ve served in Korea, Washington State, and I’m currently in Georgia. My interests outside work include finance and investing, writing, physics, psychology and philosophy.  I’m a strong believer in skepticism and that people should challenge their beliefs and assumptions in order to always advance the world.  I love creating discussion and asking questions to help people think.

Crommunist

Hello Skeptic Money readers. My name is Ian Cromwell, but I usually go by ‘Crommunist’ in my various activities online. I am a skeptic atheist, secular humanist, research scientist, musician and of course a blogger. While I have a wide variety of blogging interests (politics, free speech, LGBT issues, feminism, medicine) my passion is discussion of religion and of racism/race issues. While I’d prefer to avoid a full description of why these issues are important to me (at the risk of repeating myself), I will give you the TL/DR version: I was born of mixed heritage and moved back and forth between a number of monochromatic places, which left me with an outsider view of both sides of a racial discussion. As a result, I’ve enjoyed the racial discussion from both academic and personal perspectives. I try to bring this outlook to my writings, with varying levels of success

There is a growing number of atheists who are people of colour (PoCs – also I am Canadian and that’s how I spell it, so get over it). I think it is important for us to speak up and make ourselves known, to show the way for others. As a result, I will be blogging about race and its associated issues, but also about some generic skeptical/atheist topics that don’t have anything to do with race. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to further the discussion, and am excited to receive your feedback.

E.M. Pamu

E.M. Pamu is a Caribbean-born, U.S.-bred Catholic turned atheist who is a part-time blogger, part-time activist and full-time novelist. When not pondering the mysteries of the universe, Pamu enjoys reading, writing, learning about mythology/religion, music, and debate as well eating babies and everything else associated with being a god-less heathen.