The Forward Freethought Tuition Relief Scholarships is funded by generous FFRF benefactor Lance Bredvold. This year, the students were selected by Black Skeptics Los Angeles, an African-American humanist-atheist community-based organization. …
Outreach
Adrienne Martin – Strong Backbone Award
Adrienne Martin received FFRF’s “Strong Backbone” Award. She is a lifelong Texan, mother and chairperson of The Hood County Democratic Party. Adrienne has been fighting book banning, advocating against discrimination …
Elle Harris – “Out of God’s Closet” Award
FFRF awarded its debut “Out of God’s Closet” $5,000 student scholarship, given by Diane Uhl in memory of her late husband Stephen Uhl, to 11-year-old Elle Harris, author of two …
Daniel Mach – accepted on behalf of ACLU
Director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, Dan Mach accepted on behalf of the ACLU FFRF’s Henry Zumach Freedom From Fundamentalist Religion Award, which has grown …
Megan Hunt – Champion of the First Amendment Award
Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt, who publicly identifies as an atheist, received FFRF’s “Champion of the First Amendment” award. Her work has been covered by major publications, and she has …
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Raif Badawi
Raif Badawi received in absentia FFRF’s Avijit Roy Courage Award presented jointly by Bonya Ahmed, which is $5,000. Badawi was finally released this year after 10 years in prison in …
Alice Grecyzn
Alice Greczyn was named FFRF Freethought Heroine 2022. She is an actress, and author of Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity, and the founder of Dare to …
Daryl Cobranchi (with Eric Engle)
Daryl Cobranchi, of West Virginia, received FFRF’s “Freethinker of the Year” Award (along with Eric Engle, who could not attend in person), as successful plaintiffs in FFRF’s federal court challenge …
Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower was FFRF’s 2022 Clarence Darrow Awardee. The award is an all-purpose award to recognize civil libertarians, those who promote science and evolution, and/or freethought, as Darrow advocated. The …
