Linda K. Wertheimer is the award-winning author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance, published by Beacon Press. Linda, not to be confused with The Other Linda of NPR, is a former education editor of The Boston Globe and reported full-time previously for The Dallas Morning News and other publications. Now an independent journalist, she most recently investigated a school prayer battle in Louisiana and its national implications; the subsequent project was published by The New Republic in partnership with The Hechinger Report. Her work has also been published in many other publications, including The Washington Post and The New York Times. Faith Ed or excerpts from it won honors from the Religion News Association and the Education Writers Association. She has given hundreds of talks around the country about the power of education to combat religious bigotry and the issues that religious minority youths face. Based in the Boston area, she is working on a new book on school prayer in America