Angel Eduardo is a writer, musician, photographer, and designer based in New York City, best-known for coining the rhetorical term “star-manning™️.” He works as Senior Writer & Editor for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR).

Angel holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from CUNY Hunter College. His work has been featured in publications such as The Free Press, Quillette, Persuasion, and Newsweek Opinion, as well as a blog for the Center for Inquiry titled Searching for Better Angels, where he writes on topics such as science, morality, communication, and skepticism.

His photographs have been featured in various exhibitions and used as cover art for books—most notably in Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo for Fordham University Press, which makes use of his photograph, “Early Bird.”

Angel has been writing, performing, and recording music since the age of 15, and has been intimately involved in every creative facet of his projects, from songwriting, producing, mixing, and mastering, to designing and overseeing the creation of album artwork, concert posters, and merchandise.

Be it with music, writing, photography, or design, Angel is an artist inspired to inspire. His hope is to pay it forward—providing others with the same solace, inspiration, perspective, and opportunity for personal and intellectual growth that the work of others has done for him.

In the social realm, Angel advocates for a compassionate, honest, and civil approach to discourse, even when we’re incentivized to bare our teeth and dig in our heels. Through his work he hopes to foster more productive conversations on the topics of the day, all bolstered by his own six words of advice:

Be kind; we’re all first drafts.