Rebecca Watson
When she’s not writing bios about herself in the third person, Rebecca is leading a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and TeenSkepchick.org, co-hosting the weekly podcast The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, hosting her public radio show Curiosity, Aroused, producing pin-up calendars, and attending rock shows. She currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where she works as a copywriter in order to fund her hardcore skepticism habit. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it. She does nothing in moderation and hopes it shows.

Mindy Townsend
Mindy is the Teen Skepchick site administrator. She has a serious addiction to NPR and is a Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me Listener Limerick Champion. Mindy graduated law school in 2010 with a certificate in international and comparative law, with a special emphasis on human rights, with an even more special emphasis in the human rights of women and sexual minorities. Her only flaw – if you can even call it that – is that she will watch anything featuring Colin Firth. ANYTHING.

Vy
Vy is a muddling, aspiring science researcher or maybe science writer. She fell in love with science during freshman year of college, after spending hours listening to SGU and reading Skepchick
archives. Although she loves thinking about the universe and its mysteries, she’ll also spend her free time obsessed with the outdated hobbies of sewing, knitting, crocheting, and writing on paper.

Olivia James
Olivia James is currently 20 and a junior at St. Olaf College, majoring in Philosophy and Religion. While not the typical science obsessed skeptic, Olivia gained a love for skepticism and critical  thinking through 13 years of Catholic school, during which she realized that most of what she heard had absolutely no evidence and thus should not be believed. In her spare time, Olivia plays taiko, rock climbs, swing dances and does improv comedy. She also hopes to dedicate a great deal of her life to the skeptical and nontheistic movements so as to save other young people from hearing about
ridiculous things like transubstantiation.

Ali Marie
Ali Marie is an 18-year-old, a second-year college student and a self-proclaimed museum geek and paleo nerd. Her skepticism and interest in how the world around her works began as a young child, who wouldn’t stop asking “why?” She’s since taken classes at museums and schools to learn as much as she can, and volunteers at museums to share that knowledge with anyone willing to listen. She discovered the skeptical movement a few years ago through the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe,
and is now involved in skeptical and athiest groups at her college. She also cowrites a blog to translate the language of science into layman’s terms, and share the awesome discoveries about the world science is making every day. When not spreading science, reason, and critical thinking, Ali enjoys reading, writing, drawing dinosaurs, playing an absurd number of musical instruments, and living in awe of our amazing universe.

Katie Kish
Katie has been an active member of the atheist/skeptic community for 6 (or so) years. While she’s not a teen (unless you want to say that she’s celebrated her 19th birthday 6 times) her focus has been on
youth outreach and student-activism. She gets a new cell phone every six months due to her new-tech-toy obsession, watches movies during every spare second of her life and is about to start her masters
degree focusing on impacts on the environment due to urban and economic development in China (be prepared to hear mini rants about how ridiculous learning Mandarin is). Katie was born and raised in Corn-Field-Heaven, Canada but has since migrated to Toronto.

Melanie
Melanie is a freelance editor and writer and currently lives and works in Minneapolis. She wishes something like Teen Skepchick had been around for her growing up and is thrilled to be a part of this project for teens of today (and for her own future teens). When she’s not wrangling commas and making colon jokes, she spends her time raising her two young kids to be critical thinkers.

Lauren
Lauren is really quite a big fan of reality. She hails from the southern hemisphere of this place we call earth, is 19 years of age, and is working towards a science degree in maths and physics. When not
valiantly trying to understand the perplexing nature of the universe, she enjoys all things skeptical, reading, swimming, netball and the occasional hearty debate.

Beccy
Beccy is a 16 year old Scottish chick. She enjoys blogging, writing, reading, and generally geeking out. When she’s not doing that however, Beccy can be found playing rugby, ballet dancing, drawing, acting, or preparing for the zombie apocalypse. She is still at school, but plans to study English and Italian at Edinburgh University- and if she ever grows up, and she wants to be a journalist. As a final note- Beccy loves animals. She has three rabbits and two labradors, and yes, they are super cute.

Eden
Eden is an awesome 16 year old skeptic living in England whose life currently revolves around college, reading, gaming and internetting. Oh, and laying the smackdown on sexism, religion and pseudoscience wherever they rear their ugly heads.

Kate
Kate is an outspoken atheist, feminist, demisexual, stigma-busting student in Chicago studying psychology and human development. She juggles occasionally, would knit you something warm if she knew you, and reads anything she can get her hands on. She was raised believing alternative medicine worked, and now spends her time making skeptical faces at it.

Xe’nedra De Almeida
Xe’nedra is a pre-teen free thinker who can often be found with her nose in a book. She is an expert at rolling her eyes and making her parents sigh in exasperation. Skateboarding and golf is on her list of sporting activities and she would love to study Forensics or Medicine (which is better than being Gwen Stefani which was her aspiration at age 3). Her personal blog can be found at thesceptickid.blogspot.com