Annie Laurie Gaylor

Annie Laurie Gaylor is the co-founder and co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a nonprofit organization advocating for atheists, agnostics, and secularism and protecting the separation of church and state. A third-generation freethinker, she co-founded the Freedom from Religion Foundation with her mother Anne Nicol Gaylor as a college student and served as the editor of Freethought Today for two decades. She is also the co-host of the weekly Freethought Radio and “Freethought Matters”, FFRF’s weekly TV show. She is the author of “Woe to Women: The Bible Tells Me So” and “Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children”, and editor of the anthology “Women Without Superstition: No Gods — No Masters”. Gaylor has appeared in a variety of TV news shows, including “Oprah,” “O’Reilly,” “Good Morning America,” Univision, CNN and Fox segments, CBS Evening News, and ABC World News Tonight. She served on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Medical Fund and was a co-chair of the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association. For her work, she was awarded the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Heroine award. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism.