Jessica and I'm here at the American Humanist Association conference and we are here with Margaret Downey and I'm going to give her a chance to introduce herself because she does so many different things.

Hi, I just will tell you that I am very proudly serving on the board for the Reason Rally Coalition,

but I'm also the founder and president of the Freethought Society.

So what are you doing with the Reason Rally?

Like what are the... We've talked about it before on the podcast,

so we kind of know who the big speakers are and all that.

Tell us a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes.

Oh, there's so much going on behind the scenes,

but we are so grateful to have Liz Liddell as the executive director and she has pulled it all together.

The leaders from all the national groups got together and we've been working in harmony and the goal is for

unification and to reach out to as many people as possible to talk about our secular values, our mission, our goals, and to come out and be

proud and loud and we're so happy that we're going to be in Washington, D.C. to show legislators that we are a big

community. We are no longer a minority. We have a major voice in politics and

we vote.

So there was another reason rally in 2012 was the first one, right?

So what are the goals of this one versus that one or how is it going to differ from what it was in 2012?

Well, this one's going to be a lot bigger.

And we've combined it with legislative days prior to the Reason rally,

and we're hoping people will come out and visit their legislators during

advocacy days.

Also we're planning events such as a comedy show and a VIP dinner on Friday night and then the Reason Rally is free and

open to the public.

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