Linda MacDonald Glenn

Born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Linda MacDonald Glenn is an attorney-at-law, bioethicist, educator and consultant. She attended college at Rutgers University in New Jersey, received an A.B in Human Communication, with a minor in Womens' Studies, then attended Western New England College in Massachusetts, where she received her J.D. and met her first husband, John A. MacDonald. John MacDonald passed away of leukemia on February 8, 1984. She practiced law in Rhode Island from 1981 to 1999, where she served as a Special Assistant Attorney, Legal Counsel to the House Committee on Health, Education and Welfare, and Assistant City Solicitor to the City of Warwick. She was also in private practice, where she was the lead attorney in several cutting edge bioethics cases. She married Kim Garrett Glenn in Warwick in December 1997. In 2000, she and her husband left Rhode Island and moved to Northern Vermont. From 2000 to 2002, she attended McGill University; she graduated from McGill with her degree in Bio-medical Ethics. After a one year fellowship with the American Medical Association Institute for Ethics in Chicago, Ms. Glenn continued a small private practice and taught at the University of Vermont College of Nursing and College of Medicine. She was also appointed a faculty position at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center in New York. In 2012, after lecturing and advising at Singularity University in Mountain View, Ms. Glenn and her husband relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. She started teaching at California State University Monterey Bay in 2013. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of exponential technologies and "evolving notions of personhood".