| Annie Laurie Gaylor | |
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At the 2012 Global Atheist Convention |
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| Born | November 2, 1955 |
| Residence | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Occupation | Co-president, Freedom From Religion Foundation, author |
Annie Laurie Gaylor (born in Tomah, Wisconsin on 2 November 1955) is co-founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and, with her husband Dan Barker, is the current co-president. She is also editor of the organization's newspaper, Freethought Today, which is published ten times per year. She is a self-described feminist and liberal. She is the author of several books, including Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So, Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children, and Women Without Superstition: "No Gods — No Masters." She is a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism.
Gaylor and her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, and the late John Sontarck, founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation in a meeting around the Gaylors' dining room table in 1978. [1] She met Barker at The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1984. They began dating six months later and married in 1987. They have a daughter, Sabrina Delata.[1]
Gaylor co-hosts a one hour weekly radio show with Barker. Freethought Radio was launched on October 6, 2007,[2] on Air America.
The organization which Gaylor co-founded ran this advertisement in the New York Times: [3]
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