Zachary "Zack" Sawyer Kopplin was born on July 20,1993 and is an American political activist, journalist, and television personality from Louisiana.
23 Facts About Zack Kopplin
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Zack Kopplin is involved with science funding policy and curriculum and textbook policy.
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Zack Kopplin has been interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, where Bill Maher noted, on the show, that Zack Kopplin was the youngest guest ever to appear on his show.
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Zack Kopplin has been featured by numerous international media outlets that include Vogue, Mashable, The New York Times, the Washington Post, io9, Slate, the Huffington Post, Moyers and Company, MSNBC, NPR, and Public Radio International.
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Andy Kopplin was chief of staff for Governors Murphy J Foster, Jr.
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Zack Kopplin graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2011 and from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2015.
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On NPR's Science Friday, Zack Kopplin stated that he was born with anosmia, meaning he does not have a sense of smell.
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Zack Kopplin joined with Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat from New Orleans and chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party who sponsored two attempts to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act.
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Zack Kopplin gathered the support of major science organizations behind the repeal including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest science organization in the world with over 10 million members.
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Zack Kopplin gathered endorsements from the Clergy Letter Project and the New Orleans City Council.
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Zack Kopplin played a major role in convincing the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt new life science textbooks.
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Zack Kopplin spearheaded a campaign to prevent attempts by Louisiana legislators to reverse the board's decision.
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Zack Kopplin has played a role in the discussion over education reform in America.
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Zack Kopplin has identified and exposed a number of the schools in Louisiana's school voucher program using creationist curricula or teaching creationism.
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Zack Kopplin worked with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show to expose over 300 creationist voucher schools nationwide.
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Zack Kopplin wrote an open letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to support the Second Giant Leap campaign.
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Zack Kopplin debated Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore on the return on investment for funding science while on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Zack Kopplin made his challenge on the basis of the Nobel laureate scientists who supported his anti-creationism campaign.
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Zack Kopplin is the second person to win both the Friend of Darwin Award and the Hefner First Amendment Award.
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In 2014, Zack Kopplin received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Howard Schachman Public Service Award and the LSU Manship School of Journalism's Courage and Justice Award.
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Zack Kopplin even helped inspire a Doonesbury cartoon about Louisiana's law.
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Zack Kopplin was named a Truthdigger of the Week in December 2012, by Truthdig, a progressive website.
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Zack Kopplin is a Melissa Harris-Perry "Foot Soldier", as reported on her show.