Linda Gorman is a Senior Fellow at the Independence Institute, a free market think tank in Golden, Colorado and director of the Institute's Health Care Center . A freelance writer and researcher, she was a weekly columnist for the Colorado Daily in Boulder. Her articles have appeared in local newspapers, professional journals, and publications such as The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics.

She has worked as an economic researcher for a Denver mutual fund company, and was an adjunct professor and a principal investigator for several military manpower projects at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Her academic degrees are in economics.

A partial list of publications includes:

'Towards Nondestructive Government: 5 Rules for Safe Public Policy,' and 'Compassion or Compulsion: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Debate,' monographs published by the Independence Institute in its Issue Paper series.

'Attracting Capital to Emerging Markets,' U.S./Mexico Global Forum, Oaxaca, Mexico. University of Colorado, Institute for Policy Research and Implementation. Marshall Kaplan, Executive Director. November 9-12, 1995.

'Minimum Wages,' and 'Discrimination.' Two sections in the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, David R. Henderson, editor. New York, Warner Books, 1993.

'General Intellectual Achievement, Enlistment Intentions, and Racial Representativeness in the U.S. Military.' Armed Forces & Society, 1993, 19, 4 (Summer). '

Enlistment Motivations of Army Reservists: Money, Self-Improvement, or Patriotism?' Armed Forces & Society, 1991, 17, 4 (Summer), both with George W. Thomas.