Linda Kay Klein

Linda Kay Klein is a writer, speaker and spiritual strongwoman based in New York City. She is a frequent speaker at colleges, universities, conferences and nonprofits, and has been featured by outlets such as NPR, PRN, and the American Prospect. She writes the Fierce, Faithful and Free column for Feminst.com, and blogs about women, sex and God at manmadegirls.com.

Linda urges authentic engagement around life’s biggest questions—be it in her role as a former evangelical Christian who now gathers stories from young evangelical and ex-evangelical women about sex and gender, or in her current role as the Director of Work on Purpose, Echoing Green's social entrepreneurship-inspired program to equip Millennials to do work that is right for them and good for the world.

Linda has worked for a number of progressive religious organizations—from the multifaith gender equality foundation, The Sister Fund, to the young women’s spiritual leadership movement, REVEAL: Young Women Defining the Divine. She was the assistant writer for “Testimony,” a documentary theater piece on the religious culture wars which was incubated by Princeton University, and a founding member of Auburn Theological Seminary’s progressive multifaith women’s think tank. She now sits on the advisory board of Feminist.com’s “Our Inner Lives” religion and spirituality project.

Linda holds a Masters in religious studies and creative writing from NYU, where she focused on American Evangelical sex and gender education, and a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and theater from Sarah Lawrence College.