The Rev. Dr. Linda Privitera was born in Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Washington, D.C where she attended high school and did her undergraduate work in nursing, graduating with a bachelor’s degree and working in a hospital complex in Richmond, VA. Raised a Methodist, it was here that Linda moved towards the local Episcopal parish. She married and had three daughters; her former husband moved the family to Kansas, Connecticut and Massachussetts in an Air Force role, and they eventually separated. Linda+ underwent seminary training at Yale University Divinity School, and was in the second graduating class of female ordinations. She achieved a certificate in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School. She was a priest in the Episcopal Church for 20 years, serving urban parishes with the most recent in Arlington, MA. Linda+ achieved her doctorate in congregational development from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. In her private time Linda+ is an artist (with the Foyer Gallery), an avid gardener, reader of mysteries, spouse to her partner Melissa, a mother, grandmother, sister and friend.
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