Delmarva Pride Center

Lauren started as a volunteer in 2023 seeking to find queer community on the Eastern Shore. They provide a background in research and government regulations from their career in STEM, which is an asset when combating misinformation about the LGBTQ+ community. In their spare time, she loves being outdoors, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and spending time with their partner, dog, and three cats.

Iván has been very supportive of DPC and comes to us from Dorchester County. Iván started as a volunteer and active member of the 2023 Delmarva Pride Festival planning committee leading planning efforts for the Sunday Brunch in Cambridge. Iván brings a background in event planning, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and project management.

Professionally he is employed as a Transformation Manager. In that role, he manages and leads improvement efforts and lean transformation for a manufacturing company full time while working event planning part time.

In his spare time, you can find him doing CrossFit, enjoying the outdoors, at the beach, traveling, on a road trip, cooking, enjoying music and/or movie/tv at home if not volunteering for a local organization.

His friends and family will describe him as kind, independent, adventurer, caring, and thoughtful.

Born and raised on the Eastern Shore, Zack began volunteering with Delmarva Pride Center in summer of 2024 to support the LGBTQ+ community in Maryland’s rural counties. He studies political science in university with the goal to help foster change on the shore and advise on policy regarding the community. He helps lead in both DPC and in their Queen Anne’s County Chapter.

In his free time, he enjoys fiction writing, board games, table-top role-playing games, and consuming any sort of media he would deem “spooky”.

Kyle started hosting monthly LGBT+ socials to encourage people to come out and feel a sense a belonging and community in public. Through encouragement, these socials grew into cofounding Delmarva Pride Center and Delmarva Pride Festival.

O'Donnell loves the outdoors, waterfowl, and feels at home in rural America. Kyle and his partner Tom enjoy raising chickens and cooking together.

During the work week, O'Donnell manages a finance team and 26-million-dollar budget for 100+ coworkers across five counties on the Eastern Shore. In his spare time, he enjoys classic cinema and being with family.

Tina Grace Jones (she/her) is a proud transgender, pansexual woman who came out later in life after surviving a brain tumor, her second brush with death. A suicide survivor and the foster parent of a nonbinary child who lost their life to suicide, she understands the impact that discrimination and hate has and is a fierce advocate for LGBTQIA+ equity.

Living her life from a place of grace and love, she is the cofounder, inaugural chair, Secretary/Treasurer, and trans/nonbinary support group facilitator for Delmarva Pride Center, an LGBTQIA+ led volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives of queer residents and educating the public. Tina also serves on the board of FreeState Justice and was recently appointed by Governor Moore to Maryland’s Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs. A proponent of community service, Tina has and continues to serve in an advisory or board capacity for many other local, statewide, and national nonprofit and public service organizations.

Tina is proud to serve as the Chief Financial Officer at For All Seasons, Inc. (FAS), an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic and Rape Crisis Center. Prior to joining FAS, she served as Deputy Executive Director for FreeState Justice and as a community college administrator.

Tina received her BS in Economics and her MBA from Virginia Tech. She has also completed doctoral coursework in organizational leadership at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and post graduate training at the University of Chicago.

Tina loves her wife and their three rescue dogs. She is the proud parent of two adult children, an artist and an engineer. Tina misses her other child deeply. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, gardening, hiking, and travel.

Recently retired from the City of Annapolis Public Works Department in the Field of Engineering as a Facilities Maintenance Engineer.

Sarah is a US Army Veteran serving with the 101st Airborne Division and was deployed around the world as part of the rapid deployment force. She attained the rank of Sargent.

Stallings is excited for the community, working together, and knowing we can make a difference. Sarah wants to bring resources and a sense of community where LGBTQ people are integrated, and everyone is treated with love, dignity, and respect. Looking forward to changing the world with equality for all.

Jennifer Wagner is a professional mosaic artist living in St. Michaels, MD. Her large scale installations can be found throughout Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Arlington, VA. She has won multiple installations through highly competitive calls, beating established artists from around the world. She has been recognized in news publications internationally.

She also comes from a background of healing through community projects, organizing local and national events, as well as work in the film industry. A lover of creative projects, she has been an active and vocal voice in the community for equity and equality for all.

Heather has lived on the shore most of her life. After realizing in college she was somewhere on the asexual spectrum and panromantic, she sought after a community to make friends and support. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Conflict Analysis with a special interest in the LGBT+ community and disabled community. Living as a disabled person herself, she now advocates for those communities and anti-bullying on social media. She has worked for numerous non-profits and has tons of volunteer experience as well.

In her off time, Heather enjoys cosplaying on TikTok, playing video games, horseback riding, creative writing, advocating on social media, mermaiding, and hanging out with her husband and dogs. She is also a huge comic book fan and collector.