Lyndsey McMahan

Lyndsey McMahan is a social work professional with almost two decades of experience in international development, organizational planning and learning, project management, leadership development and DEI. She holds a BA in Spanish from Oklahoma State University, an MSW in Global Practice from Boston College, and a PhD in Global Governance and Human Security from UMass Boston. Lyndsey is passionate about human-centered programs and solutions, instructional design, empathic leadership, equity, and helping organizations realize their mission, vision and goals. Lyndsey has numerous publications related to social determinants of health in Sub-Saharan Africa and the US South; and in 2021 she received the Emerging Scholar Award for the Twenty-second International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations. Most recently, Lyndsey was the Assistant Director of Global Field Education at Boston College where she acted as both an advisor and instructor, and established partnerships with organizations in over 20 different countries. Lyndsey comes to BU with extensive social work teaching experience at Boston College, Simmons , and Lesley University and is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia.