Linda Pulley Freeman combines her specialized training in environmental and chemical engineering with her deep ministerial commitment as she serves humanitarian mission fields at home and abroad. She is the Executive Director of the Peacemaker Family Center (PFC) at Trinity Church in Miami Gardens, Florida, which has been awarded over $80 million in federal, state, and local social service funding since she began in 1999. Linda became a National Geographic Explorer in May 2019.

The PFC funding levels are an accomplishment, but the dollar amounts only tell a very limited part of Linda’s story in her time at PFC. She is the co-developer of Children of Inmates, Inc., a program featured in Time Magazine and the New York Times, which seeks to restore and rebuild the bonds between children with their incarcerated parents. She oversees the PlanBeTeen program, providing teen pregnancy prevention education to at-risk youth in Miami-Dade County, Florida. She created KidPower Organics, an organic body treatment line incorporating goat milk. She served the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University as the Community Fellow in its Healthy Policy Analysis Academy; served for seven years on the board of MAP International, an agency that provides medicines and medical supplies throughout the world; and also serves on the Board of His House Children’s Home.