Balen & Mayan Essak

FFRF has awarded Mayan and Balen Essak each $1,000 student activist awards. Freethought activism runs in the family (see sidebar). For several years, our Wisconsin public high school’s football team …

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Jessica Ahlquist

Jessica Ahlquist – Thomas Jefferson Youth Activist – 2012 Jessica Ahlquist, 16, was a plaintiff in a successful ACLU federal lawsuit to force removal of an 8-foot-tall prayer banner from …

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Jessica Ahlquist

Jessica Ahlquist, 16, who is a plaintiff in an ACLU federal lawsuit to force removal of an 8-foot-tall prayer banner from her Rhode Island high school, spoke at FFRF’s 34th …

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Dylan Galos

Dylan Galos will be receiving a $1,000 student activist award. Dylan, who just earned his Master's in public health from Ohio State, has an undergraduate degree from New Mexico State …

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Sarah McNair

2011 Thomas Jefferson Youth Activist Award Virginia woman honored for contesting school religion The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “first commandment” is honor the constitutionally mandated separation of state and church. …

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Eric Workman

Thomas Jefferson Youth Activist Award The Indiana student who stopped school prayer Eric Workman, who addressed FFRF’s 33rd national convention in Madison, Wis., on Oct. 30, writes: “I had an …

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