Center for Inquiry
Paul Paulin has extensive experience in fiscal management, currently serving as Fiscal Officer at the Center for Inquiry since 1996. Key expertise includes relationship management with auditors and investment managers, comprehensive not-for-profit management, preparation and reporting of financial and annual budget reports, and oversight of payroll and retirement plan management for multi-state employees. Paulin's background also encompasses external audit planning, compliance management, and facilities event planning. Prior roles include equipment records and parts specialist in both the Army National Guard (1990-1994) and US Army (1984-1990), where responsibilities included inventory management and maintenance recordkeeping. Paulin holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a focus on Finance and Accounting, from the University at Buffalo.
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry strives to foster a secular society based on reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to defending science and critical thinking in examining religion. CFI’s vision is a world in which evidence, science, and compassion—rather than superstition, pseudoscience, or prejudice—guide public policy. To make a better world, we need to use our heads and our hearts. To confront the challenges that face us as a planetary civilization, we need to use the tools of science and reason guided by compassion and respect for the dignity of every individual. To move forward, we need to discard old superstitions, prejudices, and magical thinking and embrace facts, evidence, and critical thinking. It’s about more than whether or not God exists. It’s about more than whether ghosts roam among us, aliens hover above us, or psychics can see within us. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) strives to foster a society free of the dogmatic influence of religion and pseudoscience; a society inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, the wonders of science, and the limitless potential of human intelligence and creativity; a society in which beliefs are not granted the same rights as people, where the freedom of expression is enjoyed by all, and all ideas are open to the scrutiny of reason. Secular government. Free inquiry. Critical thinking. Humanist values. This is the Center for Inquiry.