As Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity starts another season of building new homes and repairing existing homes, a new individual takes over as its leader.

Lindsay Lynch is the new executive director for the three-county organization with Habitat for Humanity. The LeMars, Iowa native graduated from Morningside College with a degree in corporate communications and then earned her masters degree from Buena Vista University. She became the associate director for Heart of Iowa Habitat in 2019. Then, this past Februrary, Lynch took over as the executive director, following the resignation of Jeff Lamoureux. 

Lynch talks about why she wanted to be the director.

“Well really it just comes back to the mission of building homes, communities and hope, and I truly believe in it. And the work we do for the families really makes the job so much worth it and easy to come and do it.” 

Lynch adds she is working with the Habitat Board to figure out housing projects and how to navigate to get pools of volunteers back following the previous two years when the pandemic hampered a lot of their progress.