In May 2013, comedian Doug Stanhope asked Emery to help raise money for an Indiegogo fundraiser he started for Rebecca Vitsmun, who lost her house in the 2013 Moore tornado. When CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer asked Vitsmun if she "thanked the Lord," she replied, "I'm actually an atheist." Emery sent out e-mails to 20 key celebrities in the atheist movement, and the fundraising effort quickly garnered support from Penn Jillette, the James Randi Educational Foundation, The American Humanist Association, American Atheists, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, and Ricky Gervais. The fundraiser met its goal of $50,000 within 17 hours, but Stanhope decided to continue it until the July 23rd deadline. In the end, Vitsum received $125,760.