Interview with Reba Boyd Wooden ​-Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry-Indiana-

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Humanist Voices
Published in
10 min readNov 8, 2017

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[Previously published in Conatus News]

Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Reba Boyd Wooden is Executive Director of Center
for Inquiry Indiana. She started The Humanist Friendship
Group of Central Indiana in 1999 which became the
Center for Inquiry Community of Indiana in 2005.
On April 1, 2007, Center for Inquiry Indiana opened on
the Indianapolis downtown canal walk at 350 Canal —
Walk, Suite A. Reba has a BA from University of
Indianapolis with a major in Social Studies Education
and a minor in Business Education, an MS from Butler
University in History/Education, and an MS in
​Counseling and Counselor Education from Indiana University.

In brief, what is your family story? What about your personal story?

I was born on September 21, 1940 in Daviess County Indiana to Lester and Opal (Burch) Boyd. I am the oldest of four children. I have two brothers and one sister. Norm Boyd recently retired as a senior vice president of AGO Corporation and lives in Atlanta, GA. Janet Boyd Nowling is a retired teacher from Monroe County School Corporation and lives in Bloomington. Gib Boyd farmed the family land for several years and now is semiretired…

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