As a child, Amuri experienced periods of adversity, and art was a form of escapism. At Virginia Commonwealth University, she is passionate about art and wants to be a studio …
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2021 – Mirona
Mirona is a music education major at Winston-Salem State University. Music is her passion and she plans to tutor kids in music after college and become a music teacher and …
Karen Heineman
KAREN HEINEMAN joined the Foundation as a Legal Fellow in September 2021. Prior to joining she worked at a local general litigation firm. She graduated cum laude from Williams College …
Two Child Litigants
Child litigants in Puerto Rico each earn $5k The Freedom From Religion Foundation has bestowed the $5,000 Richard & Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Awards to each of the two child …
Kylie Morgan
$1,000 ‘Strong Backbone’ award: 12-year-old wins FFRF activist scholarship Kylie has been awarded FFRF’s “Strong Backbone Scholarship” of $1,000 endowed annually by an octogenarian member of the Freedom From Religion …
Barbara Alvarez
BARBARA ALVAREZ is a Contributing Writer for FFRF. She was FFRF’s first Anne Nicol Gaylor Reproductive Rights Intern, a program set up to memorialize FFRF’s principal founder, who was an …
Rebecca S. Markert
REBECCA S. MARKERT is the Legal Director for FFRF. She handles a First Amendment caseload that includes matters involving religion in the public schools, religious symbols on public property, and …
2020 – Alex Torrez
Alex Torrez received FFRF’s $1,000 Student Activist Award, endowed by a generous couple in the Northwest who prefer anonymity. By Alex Torrez I’m a home-schooled high school junior and I’ve …
Catherine
Catherine is a theatre and music lighting design major at Rutgers University who hopes to work on Broadway and eventually become a teacher. She believes theatre and other storytelling art …
