Lynda Marie Jordan

**Lynda Marie Jordan** (an haife ta a ranar 20 ga Satumba, 1956) ƙwararriyar masaniyar sinadarai ce ta Amurka, minista da aka naɗa, kuma Shugaba & wanda ya kafa A Place to Heal Ministries, Inc. (APTHM). Ita ce mace baƙar fata ta uku da ta sami digirin digirgir daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts (MIT), kuma ƙwararriyar Ford Fellow ce a Cibiyar Pasteur da ke Paris, ƙwararriyar farfesa a fannin sinadarai a Jami'ar Jihar North Carolina A&amp;amp;T, kuma mace ta farko da aka gayyata zuwa shirin Farfesa na Ziyarar MLK a MIT. Jordan ita ce kuma mutum ta farko a Jami'ar Harvard da ta kammala digirin digirgir a fannin Lafiyar Jama'a da kuma digirin digirgir a lokaci guda.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Jordan a Asibitin Boston City, Roxbury, Boston a shekarar 1956 ga Charles Thessel Jordan, mai yanka nama, da Charlene Veasley Jordan, mai gyaran gida  . Jordan ita ce babbar 'ya'ya mata uku na ma'auratan, kuma lokacin da iyayenta suka sake, Jordan ta taimaka wa mahaifiyarta da kuɗi, kula da yara da sauran nauyin manya a cikin gidan duk da ƙaramar shekarunta.   Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Aikin Gidaje na Bromley-Heath, inda, kamar Jordans, kashi 85% na gidaje suka dogara da jin daɗin rayuwa don su rayu. 

Lokacin da Jordan ke da shekaru 11, mahaifiyarta ta sake yin aure, Jordan, 'yan'uwanta mata da mahaifiyarta suka koma Dorchester  tare da sabon uban gidansu da 'ya'yansa 12.  Jordan ta "ɓace a cikin rudani" ta fara fita kan tituna.  A wannan lokacin, yayin da take guje wa wata malamar makarantar sakandare ta Dorchester wacce ta kama ta tana shan taba a ɗakin ajiye kayan motsa jiki,  Jordan ta ɓoye a gaban masu sauraron gabatarwar Upward Bound da aka gayyata kawai a ɗakin taron makarantar. Ta bayyana jin muryar mai magana, Joseph Warren, yana tambayar ƙungiyar da ta taru "Me za ku yi da rayuwarku - ku zauna a kusurwar titi?" Jordan ta yi mamakin cewa da alama ya san halin da take ciki. Ta kusanci mai magana, ta nuna sha'awar shirin, ta nemi aiki, kuma aka karɓe ta.  

A tsakiyar lokacin bazara ta farko a Upward Bound, wanda ya biyo bayan shekararta ta biyu kuma aka ba ta masaukin baki a Jami'ar Brandeis, an amince da Jordan a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin mahalarta shida mafi kyau a cikin 100. Ta tuna da wannan karramawa a matsayin muhimmin lokaci lokacin da ta fahimci damarta ta ilimi, kuma ta koma Upward Bound a cikin bazara biyu masu zuwa.  A lokacin bazara ta biyu a can, Jordan ta kammala manhajar kimiyya kafin ta kammala shirin, kuma Warren ta ɗauki hayar wani malami mai zaman kansa don ya koyar da ita ilimin sinadarai na halitta. 

Jordan ta kammala karatun sakandare a shekarar 1974. Bayan Warren, ɗalibi na farko da ya fara karatun digiri, Jordan ta shiga Jami'ar Jihar Noma da Fasaha ta North Carolina a matsayin babbar jami'ar jinya amma ta koma fannin sinadarai. Ta kasance shugabar ƙungiyar girmamawa ta Beta Kappa Chi kuma memba ce a ƙungiyar Delta Sigma Theta . Bayan halartar shirin bazara na Harvard Health Careers, Jordan ta ƙara sha'awar ilimin sinadarai. Ta kammala karatun digiri a North Carolina A&T a shekarar 1978 tare da digiri na farko a fannin sinadarai, ta zama mutum na farko a cikin iyalinta da ta kammala karatun jami'a.

Jordan ta ci gaba da zuwa Jami'ar Atlanta (AU) inda ta gudanar da bincike a Makarantar Magunguna ta Morehouse kuma ta kammala karatun digiri na biyu a fannin kimiyyar sinadarai a watan Disamba na 1980.  A matsayin wani ɓangare na shirin digiri na biyu a AU, Jordan ta saba yin Jarrabawar Digiri na biyu, ta yi aiki mai kyau sosai, kuma MIT ta ɗauke ta aiki don kammala digiri na uku a fannin ilmin sinadarai na halittu . 

Kafin fara shirinta na MIT, Jordan ta yi aikin wucin gadi a Polaroid Corporation a lokacin bazara na 1981, inda ta fara digirin digirgir a kaka.  A lokacin, shirin digirin digirgir ya kunshi maza ne kawai, kuma kashi 3% ne kawai na ɗaliban Baƙar fata. Jordan ta jagoranci ƙungiyar ɗaliban digiri na Baƙar fata a lokacin tana MIT, kuma a shekarar 1985 ta zama mace baƙar fata ta uku da ta taɓa samun digirin digirgir daga MIT.   

## Aiki da bincike
Jordan ta kammala bincikenta na digiri na biyu a matsayin Ford Fellow a Cibiyar Pasteur da ke Paris,  ta kuma sami tallafin karatu daga Cibiyar Nazarin Lafiya da Lafiya ta Faransa da Chateaubriand. Ta yi aiki a ƙarƙashin Françoise Russo-Marie, wacce ta yi nazarin lipocortin, mai hana furotin enzyme na phospholipase A2 (PLA-2), a cikin hanyoyin da ba na ɗan adam ba. Jordan ta yi nasarar ware PLA-2 daga mahaifar ɗan adam, tana ba da gudummawa ga ci gaba da manufofin bincike na ware da magance matsalolin cututtukan PLA-2 kamar asma, amosanin gabbai da nakuda kafin lokacin haihuwa.  

Jordan ta koma North Carolina A&T a shekarar 1987 a matsayin mataimakiyar farfesa a fannin sinadarai. Ta fara inganta da haɓaka dakin gwaje-gwajen sinadarai a can;   ta ci gaba da aikinta da PLA-2; ta gabatar da bincikenta tare da ɗalibanta a taruka daban-daban a Amurka, Switzerland, Japan da Ostiraliya; kuma ta sami yabo daga ƙasa da ƙasa saboda koyarwa da goyon bayanta ga ƙungiyoyin da ba su da wakilci sosai. 

A shekarar 1997, Jordan ita ce mace ta farko da aka gayyata zuwa shirin farfesa mai ziyara na MLK a MIT,  kuma ta yi aiki a wannan matsayin har zuwa 2000.  Ta kammala digiri na biyu na Divinity daga Makarantar Divinity ta Harvard da kuma digiri na biyu na Lafiyar Jama'a daga Makarantar Lafiyar Jama'a ta Harvard a lokaci guda, inda ta zama mutum na farko a tarihin Jami'ar Harvard da ta yi hakan. Ta zama mataimakiyar minista a Cocin Holy Temple da ke Roxbury, MA da kuma Shugaba kuma Kafa A Place to Heal Ministries a Cambridge, wanda ta kafa a 2010. 

## Kyaututtuka da wallafe-wallafe
A shekarar 1995, Nova da WGBH-TV sun shirya wani shirin gaskiya mai suna *Discovering Women*, wanda aka watsa a watan Maris da Afrilu   kuma ya ƙunshi wani shiri na awa ɗaya a kan Jordan. Mai taken "Jewels in a Test Tube," ya biyo bayan tarihin rayuwar Jordan da nasarorin kimiyya. Uwargidan Shugaban Ƙasa Hillary Clinton ta karrama Jordan a lokacin fara shirin gaskiya, wadda ta ambaci "gudummawar Jordan ga ilimin kimiyya da kimiyya." 

Jordan ta sami kyautar jagoranci ta Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a lokacin bikin MLK karo na 24 a MIT a shekarar 1998, kuma a shekarar 2000 ta halarci taron tunawa da zaman lafiya na duniya a Hong Kong. 

A shekarar 2017, Jordan ta buga wani littafi *mai suna Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Building Bridges of Hope through the Holy Spirit*, wanda Redemption Press ta buga,  .

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