Lynn Yeakel
| Lynn Yeakel | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 9, 1941 Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Yeakel |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
Randolph College American College |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
Lynn Hardy Yeakel is an American administrator and political figure. She is the Director of Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership and holds the Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women’s Health. Yeakel conducted an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1992.
Yeakel was born in Portsmouth, Virginia to Lynn Moore, a teacher from Tennessee, and Porter Hardy, Jr., who represented Virginia in Congress from 1947 through 1969. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate and former trustee of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and is a recipient of an M.S. in Management from the American College.
In 1965, she married Paul Yeakel. They have two children and six grandchildren.
Since Yeakel came to Drexel in 2002, the IWHL has grown in size and stature, earning a significant institutional commitment in the College of Medicine’s 2007-2012 Strategic Plan as one of its top priorities. In addition to investing in extensive IWHL program expansion, Drexel constructed a new building on the College of Medicine’s campus in Philadelphia to house the Institute and its core programs. Yeakel co-chaired a fundraising campaign to raise an additional $1.8 million for a permanent home for the Legacy Center (Archives and Special Collections) in the new building. IWHL, the International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics (home of the ELAM and ELATE programs) and the Legacy Center moved in at the end of 2009.
A major national initiative of the Institute, created and co-chaired by Yeakel, is VISION 2020, a ten-year project to achieve women’s economic and social equality by the year 2020 when the nation will celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The project, which is now a Center in the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership, was launched in October 2010 with An American Conversation about Women and Leadership® at the National Constitution Center (NCC) in Philadelphia. Delegates from all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. A women’s history exhibition, commissioned by the Institute, opened at the NCC in conjunction with the Conversation. Subsequent Congresses were held in Chicago (2011), Portland, OR (2012), and Philadelphia (2014). In June, 2013, at the invitation of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Yeakel led a Vision 2020 delegation to an international conference on Women and Warfare and moderated the closing debate in Scottish Parliament.
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