Linda Kay Klein (she/her) is author of the award-winning book, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. She is also a purity culture recovery coach, and founder and president Break Free Together, a not-for-profit organization serving individuals recovering from gender- and sexuality-based religious trauma.

Linda has spoken around the world from various TEDx stages to The Apollo’s Women of the World Festival. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, NPR, CBS, NBC, Elle Magazine, and over 150 other outlets. Linda is a trained Our Whole Lives (OWL) sexuality education facilitator, and holds an interdisciplinary Masters degree in gender, sexuality and religion from New York University.

Linda has one daughter in diapers and another in college (in other words, she may take a minute to get back to you). She is married to a writer and social change agent who inspires her every day. Linda has come a long way on her own journey to reclaim her life, having grown up in purity culture herself, though the truth is that “the work” is life-long. It is one of the great honors of her life to walk alongside others ready to reclaim themselves and their inherent right to their own lives and choices.