COCORE: The Colorado Coalition of Reason

Rebecca Hale & Gary Betchan

Rebecca Hale (Becky) and Gary Betchan are the founders of www.EvolveFISH.com, a nation-wide business with a mailing list of over 50,000 customers, providing literature, videos, audio books, bumperstickers, and many other products, some serious, some humorus, to the secular world.

Hale and Betchan, along with Jackie Marquis, founded The Freethinkers of Colorado Springs. Both organizations were spawned in Colorado Springs in 1992 as a result of Colorado's anti-civil-rights Amendment 2 and the concurrent religious discrimination in Colorado Springs. Prior to their "call" to secular activism in 1992 they were members of the local Unitarian Church.

Betchan and Hale ran the Freethinkers from 1992 to 1999 as their daughter, Tani, came onto the scene. They both remain active in local and national freethought activities as well as continuing to run EvolveFISH.com.

Hale is currently on the National Board for the American Humanist Association, where she serves on the Executive Board. She had been born and raised a Unitarian in both New York and Colorado. Her degrees are in cultural anthrolpology with a masters in public administration.

Betchan was raised as a "none" in the Mormon stronghold of Boise, Idaho. His degree is in communications and computer technology.

They have two freethinking children; Tani, 8 and Joshua, 26.

They are available for media contaxct at EvolveFish.