Lydia Adams, from Manhasset, New York, graduated from Emory University with a B.S. in Nursing. She had a career as nurse for twelve years before entering medical school. She attended medical school at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia. She is a National Health Service Corps medical scholar. Lydia spent most of her childhood in the Caribbean and is fluent in Spanish.

Lydia is married and has a six-year-old son.