Despite having a day of heavy people interacting while tabling for Apostacon, I picked the wrong night head out of the convention to have some introvert time. I say this because after getting to my hotel room, I saw this posted.
My bias on this issue is all over this blog, in the form of my support for Recovering From Religion. But even with that, and having not yet learned American Atheists' stated reasons for choosing Sarah Morehead for this award, I feel safe saying this award was well deserved.
Sarah Morehead has worked tirelessly to make Recovering From Religion grow into an international organization that provides real help to real people suffering real harm from religion. I can think of no group that is more underrated than Recovering From Religion.
On top of that, they've got the Hotline Project coming soon, which will give people in the middle of a faith crisis a place to call, where they will receive support without proselytizing of any kind.
In addition to that, while Apostacon was/is mostly definitely a large team effort, Sarah was a driving force in the success of Apostacon last year, which has received high praise from several of our speakers. Most of those speakers were people we were only able to get because of Sarah's involvement in Apostacon. Without Sarah, Apostacon may have remained as good as it was before the name change form Midwest Freethought Conference, but it wouldn't have been become great. And that's definitely where we're headed with Apostacon.
And then, as a side project, she stepped up to settle the Matt Dillahunty, Sye Ten Bruggencate back and forth debate challenges and got the damn thing scheduled.
So, if you want to be Atheist of the Year, that's what it takes. Be a Getting Shit Done Machine.
My bias on this issue is all over this blog, in the form of my support for Recovering From Religion. But even with that, and having not yet learned American Atheists' stated reasons for choosing Sarah Morehead for this award, I feel safe saying this award was well deserved.
Sarah Morehead has worked tirelessly to make Recovering From Religion grow into an international organization that provides real help to real people suffering real harm from religion. I can think of no group that is more underrated than Recovering From Religion.
On top of that, they've got the Hotline Project coming soon, which will give people in the middle of a faith crisis a place to call, where they will receive support without proselytizing of any kind.
In addition to that, while Apostacon was/is mostly definitely a large team effort, Sarah was a driving force in the success of Apostacon last year, which has received high praise from several of our speakers. Most of those speakers were people we were only able to get because of Sarah's involvement in Apostacon. Without Sarah, Apostacon may have remained as good as it was before the name change form Midwest Freethought Conference, but it wouldn't have been become great. And that's definitely where we're headed with Apostacon.
And then, as a side project, she stepped up to settle the Matt Dillahunty, Sye Ten Bruggencate back and forth debate challenges and got the damn thing scheduled.
So, if you want to be Atheist of the Year, that's what it takes. Be a Getting Shit Done Machine.
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| Sarah with her award & Dan Fincke |
I can only imagine how much more she'd be able to get done if she could keep her cell phone charged.
Edit: Fixed the year
Edit: Fixed the year
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