Amanda Carter (car - tur)

Site Director, GLO Harrisburg

LocationHarrisburg, PA

Preferred pronounshe/her

Email address

Telephone number7178296572

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Biographical information

Amanda Carter, (Carter) is the site director for GLO Harrisburg, a community resource center for LGBTQ+ men of color and trans women of color. Before taking on that position, she was coordinator for the LGBT Center of Central PA’s Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) Advisory Board. Carter is a Howard University graduate who earned her Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in 2010. Since returning to her hometown, she has worked as an educator in the Harrisburg and Steelton-Highspire school districts, founded City Art Space, a nonprofit organization committed to providing quality, engaging after-school programming for Harrisburg City youth and served as a commissioner of the newly reinstated Harrisburg Human Rights Commission for its first year in back in operation.