Robin Blumner

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Welcome, everyone, to the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award presentation.

My name is Robin Blumner.

I'm president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry and executive director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, which is a subpart of the Center for Inquiry.

Both CFI and the Richard Dawkins Foundation share a mission to promote reason and

science, and secularism.

And to that end, as you will hear from Richard Dawkins himself, the Richard Dawkins Award honors the men and women who have been at the forefront of promoting critical thinking, rationalism, and scientific truth.

Past recipients include Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Ann Druyan, and Ricky Gervais.

And I can think of no one more deserving to be part of this illustrious group than today's awardee, Sam Harris.

During the last part of this hour-long event, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris will be answering your questions.

So please use the Q&A feature at the bottom of your screen to submit those questions.

And now I give you Richard Dawkins with a previously recorded tribute.

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