Zack Kopplin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Zack Kopplin

Student science advocate who has launched a repeal of Louisiana's creationism law

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1993

Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Profession: activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Zachary "Zack" Sawyer Kopplin (born July 20, 1993) is an American political activist, journalist, and television personality from Louisiana.
Kopplin has campaigned to keep creationism out of public school science classrooms and been involved with other separation of church and state causes.
He has opposed school vouchers because they provide public money to schools which may teach creationism.
As a high school student, he organized seventy-eight Nobel laureate scientists in a campaign against the Louisiana Science Education Act, a creationism law.
He is also involved with science funding policy and curriculum and textbook policy.
His new campaign calls for a launching Second Giant Leap for Humankind, calling for Barack Obama to invest $1 trillion in research and education. Kopplin has been interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, where Bill Maher noted, on the show, that Kopplin was the youngest guest ever to appear on his show.
MSN.com called Kopplin the Doogie Howser of political activists.
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.