Danielle Muscato

in Rolling Stone, People, Time, The New York Times, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard Magazine, and on MTV News, VH1, NPR, MSNBC, ABC, "The Real Story" with Gretchen Carlson, The O'Reilly Factor, Huffington Post Live, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, CNN, CBS, and Howard Stern, and has traveled to more than 160 cities in 8 countries across two continents. Also a musician, in 2004, Muscato founded the website FreeFiona.com, a campaign to Sony/BMG Music for the release of Fiona Apple's allegedly shelved third album, "Extraordinary Machine." The campaign was a success and the album was released to the public on October 4th, 2005, debuting at #7 on the Billboard charts and later earning RIAA "Gold" certification and being nominated for a Grammy Award. The book "Citizen Marketers" by mega-bloggers Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba, available from Amazon and creatingcustomerevangelists.com, describes the campaign strategy in more detail. She has spoken or conducted workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Drake University (Des Moines), Rutgers University, for the Red Bank Humanists (Red Bank, New Jersey), Reasonfest 2 and Reasonfest 3 (Lawrence, Kansas at the University of Kansas), the Midwest Freethought Conference (now Apostacon), SSA East (Columbus, Ohio), the University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg, Missouri), the University of Missouri-Columbia, SASHAcon (Columbia, Missouri), Skepticon (Springfield, Missouri), and many others. Available talks:

"Historical Reliability & The New Testament," "Why Blasphemy Matters," "Knowledge? What's That? A Guided Discussion on Epistemology," "World AIDS Day," "The Real Story of Christmas," "Keys to Effective Debating," and "How To Talk Religion." Custom-tailored talks or new talks from scratch are also available. Muscato also participates in formal debates and is available for media interviews.