Dave Silverman is an activist from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Silverman began publicly challenging religion in high school and often states in interviews that he became an atheist at the age of six.
He received a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University and a Marketing MBA from Penn State University. Silverman is a successful inventor with seventy four patents, and has authored several articles, including a cover story for Inventors digest. Dave Silverman has been married to publisher Hildy Silverman for almost two decades. The couple has one teenage daughter.
Silverman has worked with the American Atheists organization since 1996, and has held a variety of roles, including: New Jersey State Director, Communications Director, and Vice President. He was elected president of American Atheists on September 16, 2010, following Ed Buckner. Silverman also cohosts the Atheist Viewpoint television program, writes for the NoGodBlog, attends protests, debates and conferences for atheism and freethought, across the country.
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