Dr. Chuman has been the leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, NJ for 30 years. He has a doctorate in religion from Columbia University where he teaches seminars in religion and human rights for masters and doctoral students.

Dr Chuman also teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College and has taught at the United Nations University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has published numerous articles in the Record of Bergen County, New Jersey. He has also had articles published in The New York Times, The Humanist, Free Inquiry, Humanistic Judaism and other periodicals. He has had articles published on Ethical Culture and religion in several encyclopedias.

As an activist, Dr. Chuman has worked on behalf of human rights, civil liberties and in opposition to the death penalty, as well as many other progressive causes. He has recently initiated a sanctuary program for asylum seekers detained at the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ.

Dr. Chuman frequently lectures to public audiences on a broad range of social and philosophical issues.