Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado: Biography in Details

Who is Linda Tirado?

Linda Tirado is an American author, political activist, and freelance photographer.

She is best known for her memoir Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America.

Linda Tirado: Age, Parents, Education, Ethnicity

This author was born in Michigan, the United States. Linda Tirado date of birth is under review.

She was raised by her grandparents after her mother died when she was too young. Her father became estranged from the family.

Tirado dropped out of school at the age of 16.

There is no more information about her family and siblings as she likes to keep her personal life far from the camera. She belongs to Spanish descent.

Linda Tirado: Early Career, Profession

Earlier, Linda Tirado used to work in two low-paid jobs until she first posted her essay about America’s poverty trap on an online forum.

This essay went viral and she extended her essay into a book. Tirado worked at a pancake shop near her home in Utah.

Since she published her new essay, she has been asked to give lectures around the country.

Her debut memoir is “Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America,” which is an account of life in the low-wage sector.

This writing was featured in the Huffington Post and she gained huge popularity.

Her Why I Make Terrible Decisions, Or, Poverty Thoughts is read more than twelve million times.

A year after she wrote this essay, she’d gone from working as a diner cook on the night shift to speaking at the London School of Economics during her first book tour.

Linda flips class conventions on their head wherever she finds them.

Linda Tirado also wrote an article for online periodicals and newspapers including The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and more.

This author was included in BBC’s 100 Women in 2014.

Linda Tirado currently works as a night cook at a national chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist for a disability nonprofit.

Likely, Linda is currently working with an agent on a book proposal.

She has been a guest on HBO’s Real Time, MSNBC’s The Cycle and Krystal Clear, BBC Nightly News, and World News among others, and dozens of radio stations worldwide.

Linda Tirado: Salary, Net Worth

Linda received over $50,000 after the essay ‘Poverty Thoughts’ as a donation.

She received an average salary of $28,000 to $72,000.

Meanwhile, according to some sources, she has a net worth of $1 million.

Linda Tirado: Rumor, Controversy

The trolls uncovered that Tirado was a lesbian taking to the Mormon church, she was a homeowner and had no loan either.

Later in May 2020, while covering the protest of George Floyd, she was injured in her left eye by a sponge bullet.

Following the surgeries, she was predicted to be blind.

She returned to work after a few days. Linda filed a suit against the police around June 14.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Linda Tirado has a decent height equivalent to her weight.

Likely, she has black hair and light brown eyes.

Social Media Profile

Linda Tirado has over 4.9K followers on Facebook and 99.6K followers on Twitter. She is not active on Instagram.

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