Harbin resides in Point Breeze with her husband and their two children. Harbin is the co-founder of the Education Rights Network, a member-driven organization that develops and strengthens a broad base of parent leaders to achieve student-centered, fully-resourced, equitable, and inclusive education, for children and youth, Pre-K to 21, in Pittsburgh.

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Harbin has been very active in the District from serving as a member and co-chair of the Pittsburgh Local Task Force on the Right to Education (LTF), a parent-led organization that works with the District and community agencies to improve services for students with disabilities, to volunteering on multiple district-wide advisory committees, including the Reimagining School Safety Committee, Imagine PPS, Community Schools Steering Committee, Parental Involvement Policy Committee, and Special Education Delivery Model Advisory Committee. Live video from K8 News is available on your computer, tablet and smartphone during all local newscasts. Pam Harbin is the mother of one student in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and one graduate of PPS.