An Afternoon with Fish Stark

Come out Sunday after­noon and meet Fish Stark, the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. He will talk to us about the prob­lem of Christian Nationalism and what we can do to address it in our com­mu­ni­ty. He will also men­tion some the plans for the orga­ni­za­tion and projects they are work­ing on. This will be fol­lowed by some ques­tions and answers. We will have light refresh­ments.

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Fish Stark is an orga­niz­er, edu­ca­tor, social entre­pre­neur, and life­long human­ist. Fish has spent his career turn­ing big ideas into bold action in ser­vice of belong­ing, flour­ish­ing, and social jus­tice for all peo­ple.

Prior to join­ing the AHA as Executive Director, Fish was the Head of Program + Curriculum at Legends, an edu­ca­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy start­up, where he led research and imple­men­ta­tion teams to cre­ate prod­ucts that helped chil­dren build self-confidence, pos­i­tive men­tal health, and crit­i­cal think­ing skills.

Previously, Fish served as the Director of Programs at Peace First, a glob­al non­prof­it that pro­vides train­ing and fund­ing to youth social jus­tice activists, where he led a glob­al team of orga­niz­ers who empow­ered thou­sands of youth grantees in 140+ coun­tries to make last­ing change in their com­mu­ni­ties, and worked with orga­ni­za­tions such as the Red Cross and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation to devel­op youth lead­er­ship pro­grams.

Fish’s oth­er pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ences include man­ag­ing pro­gres­sive polit­i­cal cam­paigns, lead­ing a men­tor­ship pro­gram in the West Virginia coal­fields with the American Friends Service Committee, build­ing a nation­al­ly rec­og­nized peer-to-peer bul­ly­ing pre­ven­tion pro­gram, and teach­ing stu­dents from pre-school to high school.

A self-proclaimed devel­op­men­tal psy­chol­o­gy nerd who is pas­sion­ate about giv­ing every­one the tools to live lives of mean­ing, ser­vice, and self-determination, Fish holds a Master’s in Education with a con­cen­tra­tion in child devel­op­ment and psy­chol­o­gy from Harvard University, and a Bachelor’s from Yale University with a cer­tifi­cate in Education Studies. While at Yale, Fish served as a stu­dent board mem­ber of the Yale Humanist Community and received a Dean’s Prize for his work to build a stronger rela­tion­ship between Yale and New Haven.

Fish lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where he is President of the Speaker Mike Busch District 30 Democratic Club, is a mem­ber of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, and serves on sev­er­al non­prof­it boards. He moon­lights as an award-winning stand-up come­di­an and has per­formed in 13 states.

This event is FREE and open to the pub­lic. We will pass a hat for dona­tions to sup­port SHoWLE and you will have to oppor­tu­ni­ty to join our group.