In 1985, Lindsay went on to launch Reel Teen Productions, a nonprofit film production company funded by the Boston Foundation, Cambridge Housing Authority, and numerous corporate sponsors. Productions included What Are Friends For?, a 25-minute Super-8 docudrama about child abuse created and filmed by pre-teen girls living in public housing. Excerpts of the film and interviews with the young filmmakers aired on WLVI TV56 (Boston) and DEEP DISH T.V. (NYC). The film even made its way across the Atlantic for a screening at the 1985 International Non-Professional Film Festival in Tunisia. RTP also produced a 60-minute documentary (3/4” video) about three teenage mothers—African American, white and Latina——called IT DOESN’T HURT TO WAIT. The film was presented at the Children’s Defense Fund annual conferences on teen pregnancy prevention in Washington DC in 1987 and 1988, and is used by youth service organizations such as the Florence Crittenton Services of Boston and the Atlanta (Georgia) Board of Education. 

After relocating to Maryland and starting a family, Lindsay switched gears to offering consulting services in order to spend time with her young children. She taught film part-time at the Windsor School, a residential high school for troubled youth affiliated with the Chestnut Lodge psychiatric hospital. She also offered start-up, strategic planning, and fundraising assistance to nonprofits along the Baltimore-Washington DC corridor. Over three decades, Lindsay has provided technical assistance to hundreds of national, regional, and grassroots nonprofits and government agencies (see her Client Sampling), and helped to secure over $100 million for Federally Qualified Health Centers, hospitals, HIV providers, and social service agencies that serve the poor in urban and rural settings. She has also taught program design, coalition-building, and grantwriting in various settings, including the Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, Goucher College, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Association for Baltimore Area Grantmakers, and Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

In 1997, Lindsay was hired by Sinai Hospital of Baltimore to analyze and then recommend strategies to reduce the hospital’s ever-increasing uncompensated care burden. Under Lindsay’s leadership as founding executive director, what began as a hospital-focused effort soon transformed into a community-based, nonprofit, 80-organization coalition dedicated to the revitalization of the under-resourced African American community surrounding the hospital campus. The Park Heights Community Health Alliance was launched with funds from the City of Baltimore, State of Maryland, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and private family foundations and corporations. In 1999, Lindsay and Ademola Ekulona, a PHCHA founding Board member, were given a Social Visionary award by the Hood College Bonner Scholars Program for their work in Park Heights.

In 2000, Lindsay turned her full attention toward the HIV epidemic and the devastating impact that unchecked incidence (new cases) was having on the Park Heights community. She also noted reductions in life expectancy and significant population declines from 1990 to 2000, and again from 2000 to 2010. On closer inspection, she found a higher population decline among males and suspected the disproportionately high rates of homicide, drug overdose, AIDS, incarceration, and health disparities as possible root causes. She further explored the impact that the resultant gender imbalance had on the community's ability to replenish itself. Although the community’s birth rate was average, the annual total of births was insufficient to counter the increase in deaths, incarceration, and other types of departures. 

In 2005, Lindsay served as Co-Principal Investigator of the Managing Opportunity team commissioned by the Baltimore City Planning Department to conduct a comprehensive health and human services needs assessment of the Park Heights community. The team’s findings and more than 300 recommendations for improvement made by the community’s residents were subsequently approved by the city’s Board of Estimates and incorporated into the Park Heights Neighborhood Master Plan. 

Lindsay received her doctorate in public health (DrPH) in 2009 from the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University (HCBU) and was awarded the School's Outstanding Scholar Award for Excellence in Academic Scholarship. She has served as a peer reviewer for the Health Promotion Practice Journal of the Society for Public Health Education and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved of Meharry Medical College. In addition to learning from her interactions with health clinics and hospitals in the Baltimore-DC area, Lindsay traveled to Cuba with the American Public Health Association in 2010 to explore the Cuban family-centered, community-based, universal health system. Her professional goal is to implement critical thinking, out-of-the-box strategies, and evidence-based innovative research that transforms the current inefficiencies of health care in the U.S. into a collaborative and efficient patient-centered model of care. 

Lindsay is the author of three books: Embracing The Dragon: One Mother’s Relentless Search for Healing and Hope, a memoir about integrating alternative healing approaches with conventional western medicine to successfully treat her son’s cystic fibrosis; My Brother Wins Every Eating Contest, the first in a series of children’s books that encourages parents with a sick child in the family to explore the healthy siblings’ emotional needs; and HIV Testing and Risk, a methodology guide and findings report from her 2007 door-to-door household survey, which was modeled after the seminal work of W.E.B. Du Bois and funded by the National Institute On Drug Abuse at NIH.

(NOTE: All photos on Lindsaybeane.com were taken by Lindsay, except the ones she appears in. Photos are from her travels in East Africa (Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya), Montana, Spain, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Cuba.)