Arnell Dowret is the founder of The Center for Naturalistic Humanism, Inc. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for promoting Naturalistic Humanism.
Dowret hosts the weekly radio program Naturalistic Support on New York City’s WBAI 99.5fm, presenting material from his book Why History Has Not Yet Begun and engaging live with listeners. For 18 years, he hosted America’s longest-running radio program for the freethinking community, Equal Time for Freethought, interviewing scientists, philosophers, and leading thinkers such as Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sam Harris, and Ann Druyan.
Dowret has facilitated experimental workshops since the 1970s including The Secular Connections Workshop at the Center for Inquiry Metro-NY, Naturalistic Humanism workshops at the WBAI NY studio including the 2011 cutting-edge Meetup, The Experimental Zone as well as a weekly Naturalistic Support group for formerly incarcerated persons at the NYC Fortune Society.
Dowret is a contributing author to the anthologies Towards a New Political Humanism and The Myth of Free Will. He has presented at Princeton, Columbia, and NYU.