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 …
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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 …
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 …
Braxton
Braxton is a Navajo native from Idaho who grew up in an LDS-Mormon family. Braxton felt the church and most members shunned his family because of their nontraditional background, family …
