LJ
Linda Jenkins
Linda Jenkins is a child of God, a mother & a grand-mother, a recovering lawyer, a mediator & a trainer of mediators. She has co-facilitated Alternatives To Violence Project workshops in prisons, started & run a non-profit where she created & spun-off 2 restorative justice programs that continue to serve their communities in northern NH. She also started & ran a successful for-profit solo law practice. More recently she is an activist anarchist organizer (a member of Occupy Boston) who was the head of Quakers in NE & a minister at a progressive community church in Copley Square, Boston. She continues her ministry, Faith of Feet, in a number of arenas: she is a dancer, poet & street-performer with the Boston-based company, RUKUS. Linda is a practitioner of intentional downward mobility, embracing voluntary poverty as a mode of lived-solidarity with "the least of these" & of tax-resistance to the military-corporate-prison complex. Finally, she is Gender Queer, embracing gender-identification & sexual-orientation as works in progress for herself personally.