{"id":64079,"date":"2023-07-20T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=64079"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:14:32","slug":"lyndsey-mcmahan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/lyndsey-mcmahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyndsey D. McMahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">Lyndsey<\/span><span> 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. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">Lyndsey<\/span><span> is passionate about human-centered programs and solutions, instructional design, empathic leadership, equity, and helping organizations realize their mission, vision and goals. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">Lyndsey<\/span><span> 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, <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">Lyndsey<\/span><span> 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. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">Lyndsey<\/span><span> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14869,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/64079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/64079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/64079\/revisions\/64521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}