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 …
Daniel
Daniel, the first in his family to go to college, is majoring in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and enjoys using his photos to tell stories and …
