Lynn is the Director of the Children and Youth Commission for the City of Santa Fe. Lynn helped start the Children and Youth Commission and Fund in 1989. She works with community non-profits, programs in the public schools, appointed commission members, other grantmakers, local elected officials, and other city, county, state, and federal employees to support the healthy development of young people, from birth through age twenty-one, in Santa Fe. For the past eighteen years, Lynn has been responsible for managing city grants awarded to local children and youth programs. For fiscal year 07-08, the city awarded $1,175,000 to 33 organizations. Over 50 programs are supported by these grants in the areas of early-childhood development and home visiting, mental health and life skills training, recreation, youth development, and supplementary programs and fieldtrips for students in the public schools. Under her leadership, the amount of funding and number of programs for children have doubled since the Children and Youth Fund and Commission began. In addition, Lynn was responsible for directing the writing of both Children and Youth Strategic Plans, adopted unanimously by the city council in 1999 and 2005. In July 2004, Lynn was appointed to the board of the Santa Fe County Maternal and Child Health Planning Council for the third time, previously having served a six year term on the original council, which started in 1992. She is currently a member of the executive committee which helped retain state funding for the council when continued funding was in jeopardy. In 1999, she was part of the steering committee that initiated the Community Infant Project, a mental health home-visiting program modeled on Janet Dean’s work in Boulder, Colorado. Lynn was on the planning team that developed the County’s Zero to Three Strategic Plan in 2001. A founding member and currently the coordinator of the Santa Fe Youth Providers Coalition, Lynn has been instrumental in sustaining a group that meets regularly to share information, provide support, and initiate collaborations among those who work directly with young people. In its fourteenth year, this coalition has grown from 6 members in 1992 to 65 member organizations in 2006. This is her second year serving on the board of the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers. Since the city is the largest local funder of children’s programs, she adds a unique perspective, which includes social justice issues to the membership through advocacy and education. Lynn has a particular interest in seeing that the special concerns of boys are addressed and to this end serves on the editorial board of Santa Fe Boys newsletter. Her previous jobs have included teaching anthropology as an assistant professor at the College of Santa Fe; leading workshops on boys’ behavior for parents of young children; life-cycle development planning with high school and college students, using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; and organizational planning with non-profits and public and private school staff. Lynn has a B.A. in anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude, from the University of New Mexico; an M.A. in anthropology, with a thesis on Navajo basketry and women’s work, from New York University; and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. Her areas of specialization for the Ph.D. were bio-social and psychological anthropology with an emphasis on cross-cultural childhood socialization, women’s studies, and urban anthropology. Her dissertation research focused on the behavior and psychophysiology of preschool boys. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Lynn has lived in Texas, Washington, California, New York City and Livorno, Italy. She has been living in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1968. She is the mother of two grown children, Meredith and Jonathan Phillips, and grandmother of two grandchildren, Avery Liu, who lives in Los Angeles and Evan Phillips, who lives in Lakewood, Colorado.