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Yolanda Edrington, RALIANCE’s Managing Director, is an experienced, nationally recognized, leader with an extensive record of providing leadership guidance, community engagement, and navigating different systems to afford clients assistance from a strengths-based perspective. She is the Chief Operating Officer serving as the leading nonprofit’s Director of National Sexual Violence Resource Center. 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 also services as a member of the Match Group Advisory Council, advocating for safer platforms. Professionally and personally she works for social change. Yolanda has spent many years volunteering for community-based programs in Central PA. She’s currently serving on the boards of Alder Health Services and Historic Harrisburg Association.