Womankind Live 

Womankind Live is a partnership between Unity Temple on the Plaza and Unity Church of Overland Park. Our mission is to give a platform and a voice to the divine feminine for the benefit of all of humanity. To strengthen, enlighten, and empower the feminine voice in our world. ­­­­­Not just for women, this inspiring monthly event series will feature presenters to nurture the divine feminine energy in us all. 

Join us virtually for Womankind Live with featured presenter Linda Kay Klein on March 10, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. CT. Hosted by Rev. Jacquie Fernandez, learn from these master teachers as you nurture your divine feminine spirit and connect with like-minded participants from around the globe.

Presenters:     

Linda Kay Klein is founder and president of the nonprofit, Break Free Together, and a personal coach dedicated to helping people release shame and claim their whole selves. This work was born out of her 15 years of research on religious trauma around sex and gender, documented in her award-winning book, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Linda’s work has been featured by CBS, NBC, NPR (her interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross having been named one of the top ten of the year), and over 150 other outlets, and she has been highlighted on the TEDx stage, and at The Apollo’s Women of the World Festival, the 92Y SHE Summit, and over 100 other venues. 

Linda is also teaching faculty at Claremont Lincoln University and consults with organizations and individuals committed to doing good. Previously, she was the founding director of Echoing Green’s multi-award-winning Work on Purpose program. The program’s leadership development curriculum on how to find and follow your purpose was adopted by over 200 colleges/universities, nonprofits and corporations and has impacted tens of thousands of emerging professionals. Prior to this, she led Moving Millions, propelling what was then a $181-million campaign for large-scale investment in women and girls into the global community of 100+ donor-activists committed that it is today, and held other roles within academia and the women’s funding movement.

Linda has contributed to several publications, and authored two successful curricula and training programs. She was awarded the NYU Reynolds Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship for her work on religiously-rooted sexual shame in 2006. She later became a judge for the Forbes 30 Under 30 faith-based initiative, and the Echoing Green, AshokaU, and NYU Reynolds social entrepreneurship fellowship competitions. She is chair of the Board for the Forum for Theological Exploration board, and sits on the advisory boards of Feminist.com’s Our Inner Lives initiative and New York University’s Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership.

Linda holds an interdisciplinary Masters degree in gender studies, religious studies, oral history, nonfiction writing, and art as social change from NYU and is trained Our Whole Lives (OWL) sexuality education facilitator. A Midwesterner at heart, Linda lives in New York City with her family. She is the wife of a writer and social change agent who inspires her every day, and the “bonus mom” to a very cool teenager.

Host Rev. Jacquie Fernandez is a Unity minister who serves as the senior minister at Unity Church of Overland Park in Kansas. A Bible geek, who loves the art of metaphysics, Fernandez is a regular contributor to Unity Magazine and the host of Voices of Unity on unityonlineradio.org.