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Kaya Oakes

Kaya Oakes
Kaya Oakes is a journalist and author of several books, including The Defiant Middle, The Nones Are Alright, and Radical Reinvention. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Slate, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post, among many other places. She teaches nonfiction writing at UC Berkeley, and was born and raised in Oakland, California, where she still lives.


How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

Kaya Oakes on the Life and Times of the Legendary Activist
November 30, 2021  By Kaya Oakes
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