Zachary "Zack" Sawyer Kopplin[1] (born July 20, 1993)[citation needed] is an American political activist, journalist, and television personality from Louisiana.
As a high school student, he organized seventy-eight Nobel laureate scientists in a campaign against the Louisiana Science Education Act, a creationism law.
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.
[11] Kopplin played a major role in convincing the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt new life science textbooks.
After the new textbooks were adopted, the Baton Rouge Advocate wrote an editorial calling the high school senior "the newest giant-killer in state education policy.
[15] In 2013, Kopplin, along with Louisiana-based investigative journalist Lamar White, launched Second Giant Leap for Humankind, a political action committee which advocates for $1 trillion in new funding to be appropriated to scientific research and development and also an end to denialist legislation.
[17] Kopplin debated Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore on the return on investment for funding science while on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
[18][19] According to the Huffington Post, Kopplin challenged Michele Bachmann to back up statements she made about Nobel laureate scientists supporting creationism.