Lynn Pelco, Ph.D., is emeritus professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and has worked in higher education for over 40 years, first as a professor training school psychologists and then as an administrator building community-engagement initiatives. She earned her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She has held faculty appointments at The College of William and Mary, the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Bucknell University, and Flinders University of South Australia.

Lynn has received several national honors for her work, including the Barbara A. Holland Scholar Administrator award from the Coalition of Metropolitan and Urban Universities and the Outstanding Leader in Experiential Education from the National Society for Experiential Education. She currently serves on the advisory boards of the Pace Center and the Virginia Commonwealth University Humanities Research Center.