She has served on the university’s Service-Learning Advisory Board for the past three years. Linker received her first B.S. in communication disorders and psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, her second B.S. in physical education from Westfield State College, her M.S. in physical education from Bridgewater State College, and her Ph.D. in kinesiology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.