Zack Kopplin

1993 –

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Who is Zack Kopplin?

Zachary "Zack" Sawyer Kopplin is an American political activist, writer, organizer, researcher, and academic, and television personality from Louisiana. Kopplin has campaigned to keep creationism out of public school science classrooms and been involved with other separation of church and state causes. He has opposed school vouchers because they provide public money to schools which may teach creationism. As a high school student, he organized seventy-eight Nobel laureate scientists in a campaign against the Louisiana Science Education Act, a creationism law. He is also involved with science funding policy and curriculum and textbook policy. His new campaign calls for a launching Second Giant Leap for Humankind, through a reinvestment in science and through ensuring students learn science.

Kopplin has been interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, where Bill Maher noted, on the show, that Kopplin was the youngest guest ever to appear on his show. MSN.com called Kopplin the Doogie Howser of political activists. Kopplin has been featured by numerous international media outlets that include Vogue, Mashable, the Washington Post, io9, Slate, the Huffington Post, Moyers and Company, MSNBC, Current TV, NPR, and Public Radio International. Kopplin is a columnist for The Guardian.

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Born
Jul 20, 1993
Baton Rouge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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