2023-2024 Advisory Board Members
Dr. Alecia Fields
Dr Alecia Fields (she/her) is a board certified OB/GYN with Cumberland Family Medical Center in Somerset KY. Dr Fields is a current Fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health and is committed to increasing access to comprehensive and compassionate reproductive health care for Kentuckians. She has served on the Board of Directors for Medical Students for Choice and as the Junior Fellow Section Chair for ACOG District II. She recently moved back home to Kentucky and is excited to be working with All Access EKY. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family hiking in the Daniel Boone National Forest and working on their small, but growing farm.
Cait Cummings
Cait Cummings (she/they) is the regional field organizer for Eastern Kentucky with Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. Cait first got involved in reproductive health organizing in 2017 through an internship with All Access EKY. While at All Access they also worked with Sexy Sex Ed. Cait's mission is to raise awareness around the reproductive injustice that the people of EKY face by advocating for public policies that support nondiscriminatory comprehensive reproductive care and community education. They are grateful to have any opportunity to help educate and create a more equitable commonwealth, and encourage others to volunteer and organize as well. Outside of reproductive health organizing they enjoy reading, plants, and learning about different forms of dance.
Cara Ellis
Cara Ellis (she/her) serves her community by working as an activist. Her latest role is President of the Big Sandy Safe Zone/Pikeville Pride, a local LGBTQ+ non-profit dedicated to highlighting the visibility and inclusion of queer people in eastern Kentucky. By working as a Regional Organizing Director for the “Charles Booker for U.S. Senate'' campaign, Cara gained firsthand knowledge about the inner workings of the political process and made valuable connections throughout the Commonwealth. These experiences, combined with her passion for advocacy and promotion of social justice values, motivate her to stay engaged in her community and empower others to join her.
Dustin Miracle
Dustin K. Miracle, PharmD, MS (he/him) received his Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (UKCoP) in Lexington, KY. He is current pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the UKCoP. Dr. Miracle’s research interests include clinical and epidemiological outcomes of services provided by community-based pharmacies and of other policies impacting community-based and ambulatory care pharmacy. His policy interests include the expansion of pharmacy practice to increase medical accessibility and meet the public health needs of Kentuckians, including through pharmacist-provided hormonal contraception.
Heather Ayer
Heather Ayer (she/her) joined the ACLU of Kentucky as a campaign coordinator in July 2020. She helped manage the ACLU of Kentucky's Get Out The Vote campaign in 2020 to encourage the 175,000 Kentuckians who had their voting rights restored to register and vote. She is building on that work to expand the organization's volunteer base by training volunteers to phonebank, text-bank, and use their collective power to make the change they want to see in their communities.
Before joining the ACLU of Kentucky, Heather worked as a field organizer and deputy finance director for various campaigns in Kentucky, as well as a presidential campaign in Iowa. Before that, she taught preschool in Houston, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in French and Political Science from Furman University in South Carolina.
Heather was born and raised in Frankfort. She is very excited to be in her home state and working to make the commonwealth a more equitable and just place for every Kentuckian. When Heather is not training volunteers or scheduling phonebanks, she is chasing her dog, Tony, buying flowers at a local farmer’s market, or reading a few different books at any given time.
Joanne E. Brown
Joanne Brown (she/her) is a 1981 graduate of SUNY Plattsburgh with a BS in Nursing. She received both her MSN (1998) and DNP (2012) from the University of Kentucky (UK) and is certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Her primary clinical focus as a Nurse Practitioner has been sexual/gender/reproductive health. She recently retired from her full-time clinical position in Student Health at UK, but continues to practice per diem providing gender-affirming hormone therapy, PrEP and GYN services. She also works part-time as a clinical instructor for the undergraduate Public Health course for the College of Nursing.
Joanne continues to work on advocacy issues at the community, state and national level. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the American College Health Association’s Reproductive Rights Task Force.
Joanne is the proud mom of 3 adult children and Nana of 4 wonderful grandchildren. In her free time she enjoys hiking, gardening and traveling (especially to the beach).
Maui Hall
Maui (she/her) is a second year medical student at the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine. She plans to pursue a career in OBGYN and return home and practice in Hazard, KY. She currently serves as KYCOM’s ACOOG president. In this role, she has served as a national delegate for the ACOOG National Student Society and organized many local, community projects and fundraisers for women’s health in the eastern Kentucky area. Maui is an EKY native, so All Access EKY’s mission is very important to her. Outside of studying medicine, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with her French Bulldog named Gucci.
Sarah Ratliff
Sarah Ratliff (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Pikeville. Born and raised in Pikeville, Kentucky, Sarah began her career in social work as a case manager for folks with intellectual disabilities and/or developmental disabilities. Sarah’s time as a social worker has centered primarily around the houseless and those in poverty, with several years working directly with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Sarah is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and focuses much of her time on working with Pikeville Pride and the Big Sandy Safe Zone. Social work and helping others is a driving force in Sarah’s life.
Susan Kincaid
Susan Kincaid (she/her) is the Health Education/Promotion Coordinator at the Kentucky River District Health Department. She has worked in Health Education for the KRDHD for 18 years covering Lee, Owsley, Wolfe, Letcher, Knott, Leslie and Perry Counties. She supervises the KRDHD Health Promotion/Education team and their work involves everything from teen pregnancy prevention to tobacco education to bullying prevention to nutrition education to jail education to injury prevention. In addition to serving the Kentucky River District Health Departments, Susan is an All Access EKY Advisory board member and recently received the All Access EKY Outreach Champion Award for all of the incredible sexual and reproductive health work she has conducted in our region.