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Lynda Wilson, RN, PhD, serves as Board President (2019-2022). Lynda is a Professor Emerita of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing (UAB).  At UAB, she was Deputy Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for International Nursing, and was engaged in global health work in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.   Lynda is fluent in Spanish and is passionate about supporting refugees, immigrants and asylum-seekers locally and globally.