Lucien Greaves


Lucien Greaves also known by the pseudonym Douglas Mesner, is a social activist and the spokesman and co-founder of The Satanic Temple.

Biography

Greaves was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied neuroscience with a speciality in false-memory syndrome and graduated from Harvard University.
Greaves has spoken on the topics of Satanism, secularism, and The Satanic Temple at universities throughout the United States, and he has been a featured speaker at national conferences hosted by American Atheists, the American Humanist Association, and the Secular Student Alliance.
Greaves has been instrumental in setting up the Protect Children Project, the After School Satan project, and several political demonstrations and legal actions designed to highlight social issues involving religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
He says he has received many death threats, and deliberately does not use his legal name to avoid threats to his family.