Who We Are

Jamin Gibson is currently a Credit Executive with PNC Bank. He has held numerous executive positions since joining the Bank in 2008. Jamin’s educational background includes Doctoral Study: Warner School of Education, University of Rochester; MBA: Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College; BS: St. Francis University; and, an AS: Pennsylvania State University. Previously a Member of the Board of the Chinese Cultural & Arts Institute and Volunteer at Ronald McDonald House, Jamin is currently a Member of the LGBT Center of Central PA and Human Rights Campaign. He lives in York with his husband, Robert Copeland.

Carmen Henry-Harris is currently the Community Liaison and Coordinator for Penn State University/PACT (Parents And Children Together). One of the primary missions of Parents and Children Together (PACT) is to conduct research to promote well-being, healthy child and youth development, and healthy families from diverse backgrounds by engaging the community in the research process at all levels. Carmen has a plethora of work experience ranging from training as a Certified Drug and Alcohol Recovery Specialist, YWCA Certified “Race” “Let’s Talk Race” series, Event Planning, On-Air Radio and Television experience. Train and educate diverse populations, students and adults, Reading, Special Education and Secondary English. Carmen also enjoys cooking, tennis, reading and gardening in her spare time.

William ‘Bill’ Krenz is an Administrative Associate working in the Department of Nursing at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. In this role, he supports the Community Health & Education and Professional Development departments. He is also co-lead of the LGBTQ & Allies Affinity Network Resource Group for Penn State Health. 

Erin Shirmer has experience with both nonprofit and for-profit organizations as a consultant and a financial executive. She is currently Corporate Controller of Keystone Human Services, Inc.  Throughout her career, her focus has been on providing easily understandable financial information to managers so operational decisions are linked with achieving the strategic financial goals of the organization.  Erin is a graduate of Gettysburg College and a Certified Public Accountant.

Russell Boggs was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Levittown, PA. He attended Shippensburg University, which brought him to Central Pennsylvania. There he earned BS and MEd degrees.

Beginning in 1970, and until he retired in 2005, Russ taught fifth grade in the Cumberland Valley School District. While there, for several years, he was the chair of the district’s Act 48 Council (professional development), and the Association president. He also served on several state and national professional education committees, and was awarded a Service Award by Phi Delta Kappa – an honorary international education organization.

Some of his past activities include serving as a commissioner on the Carlisle Shade Tree Commission, being a PIAA soccer referee, and as the president of the Middlesex Youth Baseball Association.

Russ was the last co-chair of the Business Association of Gay and Lesbians (BAGAL), and the founding president/CEO of the Central Pennsylvania Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CPGLCC). He was instrumental in the conversation of BAGAL into the CPGLCC, which was launched in 2007. He later served as treasurer of the CPGLCC, until his retirement from the board.

In 2010, he was recognized by the Central Penn Business Journal as one of the twenty-five most influential minority leaders in the mid-state in the past twenty-five years. In 2013, the Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC presented Russ with one of its first “Celebrate Diversity Honoree” awards and he was a LGBT of Central PA FAB awardee.

He continues to serve the greater community on the Board of Directors of the LGBT Center of Central PA and Alder Health Services, and as the chair of the Harrisburg Human Relations Commission.

Yolanda Edrington is the COO of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, located in Harrisburg, PA. She manages the operations of the national center in its mission to provide leadership in preventing and responding to sexual violence through collaborating, sharing, and creating resources and promoting research.

This includes collaborating with a variety of national partners and funders including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office on Violence Against

Women (OVW) and Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). Yolanda has over 15 years of experience in navigating different helping systems to afford clients treatment from a strengths-based perspective. Professionally and personally she works for social change. Yolanda has spent many years volunteering for community- based programs in central PA advocating for HIV/AIDS awareness and for Black women and girls to live in a world where socio-economic inequity does not exist.

Gail Snyder is the Director of Community Reporting for Penn State Health Community Relations Department. In this role, she leads the Community Health Needs Assessment process and a team of public health professionals to manage the Community Benefit Inventory for Social Accountability (CBISA) database, Partners for Healthy Communities of Central PA coalition, and the annual Community Grants program. 

She also serves on the LGBTQ & Allies Affinity Network Resource Group for Penn State Health as well as the Board of Directors for the Lower Dauphin Communities That Care organization. 

Gail holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Pennsylvania State University.

She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, coffee dates, camping at the beach, volunteering at community events, walking, swimming, and reading.