Sikivu Hutchinson is well-known as a secular humanist activist and writer who is involved in the promotion of skepticism, atheism, and social justice concerns such as feminism. She earned a Ph.D. from the New York University in Performance Studies and has taught urban studies, cultural studies and women's education at the Western Washington University and California Institute of Arts.

Hutchinson wrote significant books, such as Imagining Transit 2003, Moral Combat 2011, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels in 2013 and has also published essays, fiction and critical theory in Social Text, Black Agenda Report, the Humanist Magazine and Free Inquiry.