Congratulations To Our Two 2025 Luminary Award Recipients!
Congratulations to all of our nominee finalists for the Shining Star and Visionary Awards for our annual Luminary Awards Luncheon held on September 4, 2025! We honored nine individuals nominated by their peers because of their excellence in their work environment and the community.
This year’s Shining Star Award nominees were:
Essence Doucet, Manager of Project Delivery at JMA Resources Inc.
Autumn Lang, Vice President Major Markets and Sales, Capital Blue Cross
Tristin Milazzo, Community Engagement Coordinator at Members 1st Federal Credit Union
Kelly R. Palmer
Lori Krause Renne, Supervisor Business Development at UPMC Central PA
This year’s Visionary Award nominees were:
Janet Anderson, Executive Director at the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation
Dr. Linda Fedrizzi-Williams, President of Central Penn College
Mary Elise Kuna, Executive Director of Cumberland County Housing and Redevelopment Authorities
Christine Pavlakovich, Chief Administrative Officer at Members 1st Federal Credit Union
Voted on in a blind review process by our previous Luminary Award recipients, Kelly R. Palmer was the recipient of the Shining Star Award and Janet Anderson of Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation received the Visionary Award. Midwest Food Bank and Leadership Cumberland were the two nonprofits chosen by the recipients to receive a portion of the proceeds from the event.
Shining Star Award Recipient
Kelly R. Palmer
Visionary Award Recipient
Janet Anderson of the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation
ABC27 Highlighted the event with a clip of the awards ceremony and that can be viewed here on the Hometown Heroes Section of their website.
Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this event possible:
In addition, we would like to thank our photographer: Conte Photography who took the photos of the event and to Alicia Richards of abc27 for emceeing the event.
Keep an eye out for when we open the 2026 Luminary Award Nominations in the Spring of 2026!
If you have a nomination in the meantime please feel free to send it to Krystin Blauch, Communications & Events Director, with the Name, Company, Email, and reason why you would like to nominate that individual for it to be considered in the spring.