Ryan is an atheist activist from rural Southwest Virginia. He speaks out for secular values and participates in citizen lobbying. He’s made a career in retail management, but hopes to finish college and be a physics teacher. Much of his activism outside organized atheism is centered around mental health, informed by his own diagnosed anxiety and depressive disorders and a 2017 attempt at suicide.
For more than 55 years, American Atheists has fought to protect the absolute separation of religion from government and to elevate atheists and atheism in our nation’s public and political discourse.