ABOUT LORI KUYKENDALL, MPH
Lori Kuykendall is President of Beacon Health Education Resources. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Health Education from Texas A&M University and a Master of Public Health in Health Promotion from Liberty University. She started in prevention education at the Women’s Pregnancy Center in Houston in 1995. In 1998, she started a county-wide abstinence program that was among the first to receive Title V Federal Abstinence Education funding. Later, she was the Executive Director of Lifetalk Resource Center in Frisco, Texas. She has worked with Aim for Success, now merged with Youth Equipped to Succeed, and also Medical Institute for Sexual Health. Her love for health and children and families were a focus of mission work in Romania and Guatemala. Lori’s passion is to be “a strong light that guides and gives hope” and to advance physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual health. She and her husband Chris have four young adult children.