Hugh Taft-Morales taught philosophy and history at the Edmund Burke School in Washington, D. C., for 19 years. He left teaching in the summer of 2006 to train for leadership in Ethical Culture. He is also in a three-year leadership certification program with the Humanist Institute. Hugh served on the Board of the Washington Ethical Society (WES) from 2002-2006, the last year as president of the Board. He served as WES Pledge Chair the following year. He served for two three-year terms on the American Philosophical Association Committee for Pre-College Instruction. He wrote a booklet entitled "So You Want to Teach Pre-Collegiate Philosophy?" published by the APA. In 1986 he earned a Masters in Philosophy from University of Kent at Canterbury, England. He graduated Cum Laude from Yale College in 1979. He lives in Takoma Park with his wife, Maureen, and has three children – Sean (20), Maya (15), and Justin (12). Hugh likes folk singing, yoga, watching ACC basketball, and playing squash. The family has just returned to Washington after Maureen’s seven-month fellowship with the US AID Office in Guatemala.