Annie Laurie Gaylor is co-founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and editor of Freethought Today, the only freethought newspaper in the United States, which is published ten times a year by FFRF.

In 1980, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has since appeared on national TV talkshows, including Tom Snyder's former Tomorrow, Sally Jessy Raphael and Donahue's Last Word, as well as many regional and local TV and radio shows throughout the United States.