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Dr. Jordan also served as an Assistant Professor and a tenured Associate Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCATSU). While there, she developed an interdisciplinary Biological Chemistry research and teaching program, which brought her national and international recognition for the contributions she’s made in the lives of a diverse population of scientists. Throughout her career, Dr. Jordan has maintained her commitment to the community and has contributed to the development of services and resources for numerous grassroots community-based programs. Her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., honored Dr. Jordan at the national level with the Project Cherish Award for her outstanding work in the community and her scholarly contributions to society, particularly her advancements in Chemistry. Dr. Lynda Marie Jordan was also selected as the African American female representative for the award-winning documentary entitled “Discovering Women,” produced by WGBH in Boston. This pioneering series profiled Lynda’s life in a one-hour documentary entitled Jewels in A Test Tube.

While on sabbatical as the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor of Chemistry at MIT, Lynda Marie answered the call to ministry and received ministerial training at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). At HDS, she earned the Certificate in the Study of Science and Religion from the Boston Theological Institute and published the findings of her ethnographic research in an article titled “Domestic Violence in the African American Community: The Role of the Black Church.” While at HDS, she became aware of the lack of access to health care among certain members of our society and pursued additional training at the Harvard School of Public Health (now the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). As part of her training there, she examined the role of spirituality in the lives of homeless women. The cumulative training she has received supports her current intention to serve as a conduit between the church, community, academia, and the health care system to help develop ways to interweave the individual threads of these entities to efficiently address people’s practical daily-life needs.

In June 2008, Dr. Lynda Jordan received both the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and the Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degrees. She joins a small handful of individuals, from around the world, who hold these two degrees from Harvard University simultaneously. In December 2010, Reverend Dr. Jordan founded A Place to Heal Ministries Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she serves as Senior Pastor. Her ministry provides a safe space to support the holistic healing of those who seek help. She draws on her extraordinary experiences to help others actualize their dreams and goals. Her ability to build relationships, based on mutual trust and respect—toward all people—gives her the privilege of hearing people’s concerns and assisting them at their point of need. She is a servant-leader.

Her book, Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities: Building Bridges of Hope through the Holy Spirit, addresses the issues that create health disparities in our country and offers solutions to eliminate them through the transformative power of the Holy Spirit. The Reverend Dr. Lynda Marie Jordan possesses a stalwart conviction in God’s love and power and is responsive to the necessity of integrating Christ-like principles and values into the development of solutions to the daily life problems of God’s people.