Carmen Henry-Harris, M. Ed., is the Community Engagement Coordinator for PACT, part of The Pennsylvania State University’s Harrisburg Center for Healthy Child Development. Carmen maintains academic-school partnerships, project leadership and the engagement of community partners. She holds a Masters of Education from Eastern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV Mass Communications from Clark Atlanta University and a Secondary English, Special Education and Reading Specialist from Eastern University. She has varied experience in the areas of  communications, event planning, education,  group facilitating, project coordinator and community engagement. Her background spans over 30 years serving in different capacities within the community which fulfills her passion of mixing education with communications, and project coordination.

Sandy serves as a bilingual project coordinator for Penn State University’s TIES/ENLACES and PACT. She utilizes her experiences and background in education, community/family engagement and family advocacy on a national and local level coordinating a variety of programs and state college initiatives. Sandy has coordinated state and national conferences involving family/community engagement.  She has also provided training and technical assistance to school districts across Pennsylvania. Her past experience includes extensive work in community building and grassroots initiatives as well as working with Temple and Pennsylvania State Universities as a research coordinator for several research projects supported through National Institutes of Health. Sandy holds an Associate Degree in Corporate Communications from Elizabethtown College. Sandy enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, crafting and vacationing at the beach. 

Anna is a third-year graduate student in the Developmental Psychology Program under the mentorship of Dr. Kristin Buss and Dr. Jenae Neiderhiser. She graduated from Tufts University in 2015 with a B.S. in Cognitive Brain Science and Child Development. Anna takes a biopsychosocial approach to her research, and is interested in the interplay between biological and environmental factors and how they may be associated with children’s socioemotional development. As the PACT Graduate Administrative Assistant, Anna will be attending PACT meetings and assisting with PACT events and reports.