Hemant Mehta

Hemant Mehta is an author, blogger, and atheist activist who gained fame for selling his soul on eBay. Mehta is a regular speaker at atheist events and has sat on the boards of charitable organizations such as the Secular Student Alliance and the Foundation Beyond Belief. He also runs a blog on Patheos, Friendly Atheist, in which he and his associates publish articles several times a day.

Hemant Mehta was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1983. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004 with a double degree in math and biology and began teaching in 2007. He acquired a masters degree in math education from DePaul University in 2010 and a national board certification in teaching in 2012. He taught high school math in Naperville, Illinois until 2014 when he announced on Facebook and his blog that he had submitted his resignation to the school, citing that As much as I love being in the classroom, the opportunities online are just a lot greater right now, and I dont want to have any regrets down the road about not taking this chance while I have it.

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