Richard Schloss is the fourth person to serve as President of Long Island Atheists, having joined the organization back in 2010, two years after its founding. He is a member of several secular advocacy organizations, including Americans United For Separation of Church and State, American Humanist Association, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Center For Inquiry-Long Island, and the New York City Skeptics, as well as American Atheists. He is married to a “Humanistic Jew,” with whom he has two adult sons; both his sons consider themselves atheists and freethinkers. He maintains a full-time private practice in general adult psychiatry in Huntington, NY.
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.