Natalie Mendoza, Arizona State University – Arizona, $750 By Natalie Mendoza I am one of the lucky ones. My parents did not brainwash me in religion. Growing up, my atheist parents …
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Evelyn Dietz, Rollins College – Florida, $400 By Evelyn Dietz As a general rule, religious “Nones” have the potential to protect pressing rights regarding bodily autonomy in the United States, …
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Quinn Weidner, North Carolina State University – North Carolina, $500 By Quinn Weidner At its core, religion was created in the hopes of establishing unification of the spiritual mind, thus …
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Lyn Sepersky, University of Wisconsin – Wisconsin, $1,500 By Lyn Sepersky I was supposed to feel heard. I was supposed to feel loved. But in the pews of the Catholic Church …
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Emily Turner, Case Western Reserve University – Ohio, $300 By Emily Turner In a world where religion is considered the norm, the principle of “separation of church and state” has …
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Olivia English-Saunders, Michigan State University – Virginia, $1,500 By Olivia English-Saunders I always tried to be religious. In Texas, I grew up watching my friends pull out their pink bibles inscribed …
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Ivy Nichols, Colorado State University – Colorado, $1,000 By Ivy Nichols A glance into the values of religious “Nones” reveals the potential of this growing demographic to build a more inclusive, …
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Ashkon Shirazi, Brown University – Florida, $2,500 By Ashkon Shirazi My parents raised us without religion; their country had seen too much of it. The secular shah was replaced with …
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Garrett Hartfelder, University of Southern California – California, $3,000 By Garrett Hartfelder I vividly remember one summer when I was very young, I was at a summer camp at a …
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