FFRF legal intern Arash ("Ash") & Khosrowshahi Student activist awardee Jessica Ahlquist
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2011
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ash, one of FFRF's outstanding summer legal interns, will talk about his work for FFRF, and how he became the atheist son of a Shiite father from Iraq and a Roman Catholic mom from Iowa! Brave Rhode Island high school student Jessica Ahlquist, 16, who will receive a $1,000 student activist award at FFRF's October national convention in Hartford, Conn., will talk about why she became a plaintiff in an ongoing federal lawsuit against a religious painting at her high school ... and how she lost a few "friends."
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