An Interview with Anya Overmann, Communications Officer of IHEYO

*This interview has been mildly edited for clarity and readability.*

Tell us about yourself — family background, culture, first language, and religious/humanist background.

I was born and raised in St. Louis. My parents were raised Catholic. Independently, they decided Catholicism and Christianity were not for them. They didn’t want to follow that any further. When they had kids, my brother and I, they realized that they did want us to have a religious education, but not necessarily in a…