Linda Kinstler

Freelance writer; Ph.D candidate, Rhetoric Department at U.C. Berkeley

Freelance writer and Ph.D candidate in the Rhetoric Department at U.C. Berkeley. Her article “Can Silicon Valley Find God?” was published in the New York Times

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