Tag Archives: Young Humanists International

Interview with Anya Overmann – President, Young Humanists International

by | January 14, 2021

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Anya Overmann is the President of Young Humanists International and has held multiple roles in the American Ethical Union. Her roles have mainly been in the youth sections of these organizations. She was raised in the Ethical Culture movement and attended the Ethical Society of St. Louis as a child to… Read more »

By Way of Re-Introduction: Note, “International Humanist and Ethical Union” Became “Humanists International”

by | September 11, 2019

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen The International Humanist and Ethical Union or IHEU was founded in 1952 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Julian Huxley, Jaap van Praag, Harold Blackham (Humanists International, 2019a). Humanism, as a philosophy and lifestance, needs little introduction to the community of readers here. The American Ethical Union, American Humanist Association, British Ethical Union, the… Read more »

Interview with Tsung-jen Wu – Asian Working Group (Taiwan), Vice-Chair East Asia, Young Humanists International

by | June 30, 2019

Tsung-jen Wu is the Vice-Chair of East Asia of the Asian Working Group (Taiwan) of Young Humanists International. He is important in the provision of a perspective from East Asia and humanism. In particular, the youth culture of humanism there, in which Taiwan may become an important vanguard – in some ways maintains this status… Read more »