Graduating from California State University, Long Beach in 2021, Dr. Lendrum is recognized as
an equity-based educator, TEDx/motivational speaker, and servant leader. After years of experiencing several years of incarceration and battling addiction, Dr. Lendrum turned his life around through the transformative power of higher education. Compelled to foster the same experience for others, he currently serves as an adjunct professor of Communication Studies at Long Beach City College and East Los Angeles College where he has the pleasure of teaching a cohort of formerly incarcerated students in partnership with Homeboy Industries and ELAC’s Education Justice Rising Scholars.
Dr. Lendrum’s current role as an adjunct professor has brought him closer to his dream of teaching college level courses within California’s prison system with the goal of bringing hope to individuals that may not see themselves capable of operating with a new purpose.