Linda was born in north New Jersey in 1960 and didn’t realize that her mother was a Holocaust Survivor until her high school years. Her mother, Ann Jaffe, became a speaker in the mid-70s, having closed that part of her life off from her children until then. They had moved from NJ to Wilmington, Delaware, where Ann was a Hebrew School teacher, and Linda completed her education with a business degree from the University of Delaware.
