Lynda Marie Jordan
Personal Information
Born: 1956
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Black
Education
North Carolina A&T BS, Chemistry 1978; Clark Atlanta University MS, Biochemistry 1980; MIT PhD Biological Chemistry 1985; Harvard University MPH; M.Divinity 2008
Professional Life
Field of Study: Biochemistry; Ordained Minister
Institution/Corporation: Pasteur Institute; North Carolina A&T State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Ford Fellow at Pasteur Institute; Beta Kappa Chi; Delta Sigma Tau; American Chemical Society
Awards & Achievements
Awards: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award, MIT 1998
Achievements: CEO & founder of A Place to Heal Ministries (2010); 2007-2010, spearheaded an NIH funded project that measured the impact of spirituality on health
Is an ordained minister
3rd African-AMarjoriedmerican female recipient of a PhD from MIT
1st female invited to the MLK Visiting Professor Program at MIT
1st person at Harvard University to complete a Master of Public Health & a Master of Divinity simultaneously
After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother, moved into the projects (public housing), & depended on welfare to survive
Her mother remarried when she was 11 & she had 12 step-siblings, plus 2 natural sisters
Participated in the Upward Bound Program
Was a Ford Fellow at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
1995, was the subject of a 1-hour documentary on discovering Women produced by Nova & WGBH-TV