About

Linda Lee Smith Barkman:

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• PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary in Intercultural Studies, specializing in Intercultural Communication.

• Advocate for the marginalized, especially women, and most especially currently and formerly incarcerated women.

• Under care towards ordination with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

• Authority on Muted Group Theory as explaining the dynamics of muting the less powerful, while also providing a mechanism for resistance and change.

• Promoter of hospitality, creation care, and table fellowship as three primary practices of community building.

• Practitioner of a new paradigm of mission to Tijuana, that of supporting indigenous women in situ.