13 Facts About Lynn Yeakel

Lynn Hardy Yeakel was an American administrator and political figure.

Lynn Yeakel was the Director of Drexel University College of Medicine's Institute for Women's Health and Leadership and held the Betty A Cohen Chair in Women's Health.

Lynn Yeakel co-chaired a fundraising campaign to raise an additional $1.8 million for a permanent home for the Legacy Center in the new building.

In June 2013, at the invitation of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Lynn Yeakel led a Vision 2020 delegation to an international conference on Women and Warfare and moderated the closing debate in Scottish Parliament.

Lynn Yeakel was a founder and Board Chair of Women's Way, the first and largest women's fundraising coalition in the nation, and served as its CEO from 1980 until 1992.

Lynn Yeakel lost the election by about 800 votes, out of over 100,000 cast.

Lynn Yeakel chaired the region's Welfare Reform Team, the Child Health Initiative and the Combined Federal Campaign and served on the national committee to implement the federal Violence Against Women Act.

Lynn Yeakel was a past president or chair of many local and national non-profit organizations, including among others AccessMatters, the Junior League of Philadelphia, the 21st Century League, the Citizens' Coalition for Energy Efficiency, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the board of overseers of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lynn Yeakel served as an advisor to the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, the Center for the Advancement of Girls at the Agnes Irwin School, the Women's Resource Center and the Professional Women's Roundtable.

Lynn Yeakel received the first Susan Myers Leadership and Community Activism Award from the Junior League of Philadelphia, the John Gardner Lifetime Achievement Award from Common Cause, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Lynn Yeakel was honored by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania with a Take the Lead Award, and by the Alice Paul Institute with the Alice Paul Equality Award.

Lynn Yeakel was a frequent speaker at women's and girls' leadership forums.

Lynn Yeakel died from complications of a blood cancer in Fort Myers, Florida, on January 13,2022, at the age of 80.