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Emi Nietfeld is the author of the memoir Acceptance. A former foster youth, she graduated from Harvard in 2015 and worked as a software engineer at Google and Facebook. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Longreads, and The Information, among other publications. She lives in New York City with her family.

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