Lori Lipman Brown
Radio: Bio of lobbyist Lori Lipman Brown
December 25, 2005
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Lori Lipman Brown is the first director and lobbyist of the Secular Coalition for America.
Brown served as Nevada state senator from 1992 to 1994. Her legislative record in the arenas of public education, mental health care, and the repeal of consensual sex crimes resulted in her being named civil libertarian of the year by the southern Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and legislator of the year by the Nevada chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Brown has been a frequent political commentator on television and radio and a regular columnist in a variety of print media. A former private practice lawyer, she served most recently on the faculty of the University of Phoenix, where she taught constitutional law, American history, and education law. She has also taught high school English, speech, and drama.
She has facilitated or presented at numerous events, including conferences of the American Humanist Association, the Secular Student Alliance, and the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada. She also served as the National Education Association's diversity trainer from 1996 to 2000.
Brown directs the Secular Coalition's activities and lobbies U.S. congressional representatives on issues arising out of the inappropriate incursion of religion into civil law. She addresses the interests and concerns of America's atheists, freethinkers, humanists, and other secularists.
Organized in 2002 as the nation's first 501(c)4 lobbying organization for freethinkers, the Secular Coalition for America works to increase the visibility and respectability of nontheistic viewpoints within the larger culture and to protect and strengthen secular government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.
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