Steven Levithan is a nomad with interests in writing, teaching, art, and language, which he writes about in his blog at Life After Tech. He worked in tech for 17 years in Silicon Valley, Washington DC, Tokyo, and Baghdad, and coauthored two programming books.
He was born and raised in the Children of God/The Family but left the group at age 16. Since 2005, he has helped edit the website xFamily.org, a collaboratively edited encyclopedia about The Family/Children of God cult.