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Who is Annie Laurie Gaylor?
Annie Laurie Gaylor is an American author, feminist activist, atheist, and secularist. Annie Laurie Gaylor and her husband, Dan Barker, co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which she is now co-presidents. In 1978, Annie, her mother Anne Nicol Gaylor, and the late John Sontarck met around the Gaylors’ dining room table to form EERF.
Early Life and Childhood
Annie Laurie Gaylor was born in the United States of America on November 2, 1955. Annie’s age is 66.
Her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, and father were both born in the United States of America. Lucy Anne Nicol was born on November 25, 1926, in Tomah, Wisconsin.
She was an American atheist and reproductive rights activist. She co-founded the Freedom from Religion Foundation as well as a fund for abortions for Wisconsin women.
Nicol also wrote Abortion Is a Blessing and edited The World Famous Atheist Cookbook. The American Humanist Association honored her with the Humanist Heroine Award in 1985.
In 2007, she received the Tiller Award from NARAL Pro-Choice America. Nicol died on June 14, 2015, at the age of 88, in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
Annie’s father died in 2011 from brain cancer.
Education Details
Annie Laurie Gaylor graduated from the University of Wisconsin-School Madison’s of Journalism in 1980.
Professional Career
Gaylor is a member of the Women’s Medical Fund, Inc., a group that assists women in paying for abortion services.
Annie has participated in other protests, such as speaking out against gun violence, protesting perceived judicial misconduct in Wisconsin, and protesting South Dakota abortion restrictions.
In 2010, she received the American Humanist Association’s Humanitarian Heroine award.
Annie is also on the Secular Student Alliance’s speaker’s bureau and has been an invited speaker at various conferences, including the Minnesota Atheists’ regional conference and the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, Australia.
She has appeared on print, radio, and television media numerous times to discuss the FFRF’s work. Annie had discussed issues such as the National Day of Prayer case and the censored advertising campaign in Las Vegas.
Currently, she contributes to print media across the United States on women’s issues. She also co-hosts a weekly one-hour radio show called Freethought Radio with her husband.
Freethought Radio is a weekly broadcast on Progressive Talk The Mic 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
A number of other stations in the Midwest broadcast the program. The same program is also available as a podcast.
Net Worth and Salary
Annie Laurie Gaylor makes an annual salary of $87,3096.
Annie has amassed a net worth of $1,894,276 as a result of her work and publications.
Relationship Status
Annie Laurie Gaylor’s husband is Dan Barker. They met in 1984 while both were guests on Oprah Winfrey’s AM Chicago show.
Annie and Dan began dating six months later and married in 1987. They are the proud parents of Sabrina Delata.
Body Measurements
She is a woman of average height. Annie stands 5 feet 4 inches tall ( Approx 1.6m).
Social Media
Her social media handles are unknown.
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Trivia
- Annie is a secular and atheist author from the United States.
- She is the current co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which she co-founded.
- She is currently a contributing writer on women’s issues for print media across the United States.
- She was born in the United States of America on November 2, 1955.
- Dan Barker, her husband, is her husband.
