Staff

Jenny Eaton Dyer, Phd
Founder

Jenny Dyer is the Founder of The 2030 Collaborative. As such, she directs the Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with Friends of the Global Fight. And, she also leads the Faith-Based Coalition for PEPFAR and the Faith-Based Coalition for Global Nutrition.

Dyer has taught Southern Religion and Culture (2013) as a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University as well as Religion and Global Health (2016) as a Lecturer at Vanderbilt School of Divinity. For seven years, she taught Global Health Politics and Policy (2011-2017) as a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy (and Medicine, Health, and Society) at Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

Dyer formerly served as the CEO/Executive Director for Senator-Doctor Bill Frist’s humanitarian organization, Hope Through Healing Hands, in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, she served as the National Faith Outreach Director for the DATA Foundation and/or The ONE Campaign, Bono’s organization. In this role, she worked with religious leaders, authors, artists, and other faith-based leaders to promote awareness and advocacy for extreme poverty and global AIDS issues.

Dyer has written both peer-reviewed academic articles and opinion pieces at the intersection of religion and global health. She has been published in TIME, Forbes.com, Huffington Post, Roll Call, Christianity Today’s Her.meneutics, Patheos, Relevant Magazine, Christian Post, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, and The Tennessean to name a few.

She is a co-editor for the newly released The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (2019). She also is a contributor of Why Save Africa: Answers from around the World (2011) and a co-compiler of The Mother & Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope (2015) and The aWAKE Project: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis (2002).

Dyer holds a B.A. in Religion from Samford University (1999), a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School (2001), and a Ph.D. in History and Critical Theories of Religion from Vanderbilt University (2007).

She lives in Franklin, Tennessee with her husband, John, and two boys, Rhys and Oliver.

Jane Lynch Crain
Director of Operations

Jane Lynch Crain currently serves as the Director of Operations of the 2030 Collaborative. In this role, she is responsible for organizational management and logistics, including financial and administrative oversight as well as event production and execution. Prior to her work at the 2030 Collaborative, Jane Lynch served as Director of Operations of the global humanitarian organization Hope Through Healing Hands, founded and chaired by Senator Bill Frist, M.D. 

Jane Lynch specialized in political fundraising and event management for ten years for a multitude of notable figures, including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, and U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann. During that period, she developed her noteworthy diplomacy skills, as well as her acute attention to detail and keen situational awareness. 

A proud graduate of The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ, she holds as Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY as a double major in English and Spanish. Jane Lynch is a native of Houston, TX and currently resides in Nashville, TN.

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