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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.〔(Real Time with Bill Maher: Episode 277 ), HBO, April 5, 2013〕 MSN.com called Kopplin the Doogie Howser of political activists.〔(19-year-old activist fighting to protect education from creationism ), MSN Now, January 16, 2013〕 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. Kopplin is a columnist for ''The Guardian''.〔(The Guardian Profile for Zack Kopplin )〕 ==Personal life== Kopplin was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His parents are Andrea D. (Neighbours) and Andy Kopplin, who is the first deputy mayor and chief administrative officer for the City of New Orleans. Andy Kopplin was chief of staff for Governors Murphy J. Foster, Jr. and Kathleen Blanco and founded the Louisiana Recovery Authority under Blanco. Zack Kopplin graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2011 and Kopplin is a senior history major at Rice University in Houston, Texas. On NPR's Science Friday, Kopplin stated that he was born with anosmia, meaning he does not have a sense of smell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zack Kopplin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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