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Meet Our Assembly Speakers
Meet the speakers, facilitators, and presenters helping shape the 111th AEU Assembly. Their work brings depth, creativity, and care to this year’s theme, “150 Years of Eliciting the Best: Then, Now and Always.” We are grateful for the voices and perspectives they will share as we gather to reflect, connect, and help shape what comes next.
Tom Castelnuovo
Tom Castelnuovo BS MCP MBA has been a member of Brooklyn Ethical since 2005 and is now on the AEU board. In his career, he has implemented practical fiscal, management and computer system solutions in the fields of jail reform, child welfare, special education and homeless services as a fiscal analyst, IT director and board chair. He chairs the AEU Ethical Action Committee.
Stan Horwitz
Stan is retired from working at Temple University in Information Technology and he lives with his cat Einstein in the Art Museum area of Philadelphia. Stan is serving as the new President of the Philadelphia Ethical Society (as of July) and is a member of the AEU’s Board of Directors.
Lindsay Price Jackson
Lindsey Price Jackson has a JD from Penn State and an MPA from New York University. She currently works as an immigration attorney for a New York City faith-based nonprofit, working with foster children, unaccompanied minors, adults, and families seeking safety. She has also worked in criminal law and child welfare, including supporting the UN as a consultant on Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 to end child labor and human trafficking.
Louise Jett
Louise Jett is an Ethical Humanist, educator, storyteller, and American Ethical Union Certified Leader. She serves as Creative Director of the Ethical Society of St. Louis and Statewide Branding Manager for Illinois. Her work focuses on ethics, belonging, community-building, leadership, and human flourishing.
Audrey Kindred
Audrey Kindred is currently a Leader-in-training with the American Ethical Union, the president of the National Ethical Service, co-chair of the Ethical Education Committee of the AEU, and the director of children, youth, family programming at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. She welcomes Assembly visitors to visit the Youth and Families’s office: room 502.
Carolyn Parker
Carolyn A. Parker is Senior Research Fellow at the Ethical Culture Institute and Editor of The Annals of the ECI. She is a member of the Ethical Society of Austin, which she represents on the Board of the American Ethical Union. She is also a member of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, where she serves on the Board of Trustees and chairs the Archives Committee. Parker also serves on the Executive Committee of the National Ethical Service.
Fish Stark
Fish Stark is the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. He holds a Master’s in Education with a concentration in child development and psychology from Harvard University, and a Bachelor’s from Yale University with a certificate in Education Studies. Fish lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where he is President of the Speaker Mike Busch District 30 Democratic Club, is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, and serves on several nonprofit boards.
Mostafa Younesie
Mostafa Younesie is an independent scholar with a PhD and a former assistant professor specializing in classical Greek philosophy of ethics and politics. He taught graduate seminars on Plato and Aristotle, supervised MA/PhD theses, and published Persian and English research on philosophy, philology, and language.
