Annie Laurie Gaylor (born November 2, 1955) is an American atheist, secular and women's rights activist and a co-founder – and, with her husband Dan Barker, a current co-president  – of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

[1] She was also the editor of the organization's newspaper, Freethought Today (published ten times per year) until 2015.

[3] Gaylor has worked to make the FFRF the largest organization of atheists and agnostics in the United States.

[13] Gaylor has appeared in numerous print, radio and television media discussing the work of the FFRF, such as an advertising campaign being censored in Las Vegas[14] and the case against the National Day of Prayer.

[15] Gaylor contributes writings to print media across the United States on women's issues: how politics affects women's access to reproductive health care in the state of Wisconsin,[16] the arrest of the Tunisian woman Amina Tyler for posting a nude photo of herself,[17] the 50-year anniversary of the publication of The Feminine Mystique,[18] and the state of women's rights around the world since the Seneca Convention.