Minister, Janalyn Glymph , Ph.D.
After 40 years of service with the Los Angeles Unified School District, Dr. Janalyn Glymph retired as its Personnel Director. In is capacity, she oversaw the human resources operations for over 38,000 non-teaching employees in the nations’s second largest school district. Other positions held while at the District included Executive Officer of the Board of Education and General Manager of the District’s PBS Television Station. While at KLCS-TV, Janalyn guided the Station to 8 Emmys and 16 Emmy nominations for the production of original educational programming. She was also successful in positioning KLCS as a national model for innovative uses of digital content for students of color in particular.
Dr. Glymph has been widely recognized for her service in the fields of education, leadership, and the arts; and has enjoyed numerous invitations to share her expertise in Human Resources Development, Television Station Management, Artistic Collaborations, and Communications Management since her retirement in 2015. Now serving in her fourth term as an elected official with The California Credit Union, Dr. Glymph has used the insights that she has gained over the course of a lifetime to help steer and grow this financial institution to its current multi-billion dollar level.
In addition to navigating a robust career, Dr. Glymph has also been a professional dancer since the age of twelve. She danced with the Helga Lind Dance Company, Cumulus Dance Company of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Dance Theatre, the Dance Theater of Harlem (summer program) and the 1996 Olympic Dance Corps where she performed in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies held in Los Angeles. She is now the MInister of Arts at Glory Christian Fellowship, International where she has directed , choreographed, and ministered in dance for the last 30 years. And she is the Founder and CEO of Saved2Serve Ministries, which has been celebrated for uniting Christian artists worldwide for the past 24 years. Lastly, Dr. Glymph is the acclaimed author of The Llama and the Lamb and 33 Letters For Such A Time As This: When Relationships Matter.
Dr. Janalyn earned her Ph.D from United States International University in Leadership and Human Behavior; her MA Degree from USC’s Annenberg School of Communications in Communications Management; and her BA Degree from USC in English, with a minor in Business Administration. She and her husband of 36 years have one daughter, and reside in Los Angeles, California and in Asheville, North Carolina.