Community Activist #Yonkers YMCA Head Honcho Shawyn Patterson Howard is known as a problem solver, able to mobilize communities to implement creative solutions to big problems. When Shawyn Patterson Howard saw the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastating our community in 1996, she joined the fight to help those in need. Shawyn Patterson Howard won $1.1 million per year in federal funding for…
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Steven Simpson
Steven Simpson moved to Yonkers in 2001 and loved the diversity of his community and felt a need to serve the City of Yonkers. Toward that end, starting in August of 2002 he volunteered his time with and his effort to the Yonkers Office of Emergency Management and would later become a member of the…
Wayne Schneider
Wayne Schneider was born in 1975 in Yonkers, New York to Susan and Jesse Schneider. He attended Yonkers Public School 13 and Roosevelt High School. Wayne Schneider started Precision Conciege with his brother Oren Schneider, Known as PCNY, the company provide luxury car service, private aircrafts, yacht charters, protective services and numerous high end clientele…