Linda Kay Klein
In junior high and high school, I was sure I was going to be a missionary. And in college, I wasn’t sure of anything. In desperation, I made a list of possible careers: writer, librarian, puppeteer, truck driver (I’m a sucker for a road trip). But the fear, anxiety and disconnection I uncovered in the interviews I began doing to help me heal from the shame I was experiencing was something I just couldn’t shake.
Twelve years of interviews and intimate conversations later, I am the author of PURE: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, and the founder of Break Free Together, an organization that helps people to release shame and claim their whole selves.
Today, you can find me in New York City writing in my local coffee shop, or singing a little too loudly as I walk Pearl-the-Boy-Dog. I am the wife of a writer and social change agent who inspires me every day, and the “bonus mom” to a very cool 17-year old girl.
