Secular Student Alliance
Secular Student Alliance {SSA) is a non-profit organization that promotes atheism/agnosticism]]/secular humanism in high schools and colleges. As of June of 2016, the SSA's Board of Directors has fourteen members.[1]
Secular Student Alliance and Richard Carrier sexual abuse allegations
The Campus Fix reported in July of 2016:
| â | Atheism activist Richard Carrier ...champions an âintersectionalâ strain of atheism that promotes social justice.
And his reputation now lies in tatters... Carrier is on the receiving end of a growing sexual-harassment inquiry by a national student atheist organization that has featured him as a campus speaker. Yet he continued speaking to Secular Student Alliance chapters at numerous universities over the past year, even while the national office was âfully awareâ that he had harassed students, according to his accuser, who stayed quiet more than a year before going public earlier this month. As a result, Carrier has been banned from a prominent atheist conference and even from writing on his own blog. He told The College Fix he would commence legal action in the next two weeks to clear his name. In a Facebook post June 15 that was removed right before this storyâs publication, the former president of the Arizona State University chapter of the alliance, Amy Frank, said that Carrier âsexually harassed me and touched me a year ago after speaking at ASU.â... âIâm not even close to being his only victimâ, and there are even more victims of other speakers of the SSA,â Frank wrote, calling abuse âfairly commonâ at its events. She accused the alliance of âgo[ing] out of their way to undermine the reports,â and said she would boycott it until its leadership is âcompletely dismantled.â[2] |
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Report of fundraising problems
See also: Atheist fundraising vs. religious fundraising and Atheism and charity
In October 2015, the Secular Student Alliance tweeted that it "desperately" needed $100,000 by the end of the month. The SSA Executive director August Brunsman reported that fundraising had lagged.[3]