Career Highlights

• As the first Executive Director of the Midwest Access Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to filling gaps in medical education and clinical training, Kristie grew the organization, developing and providing stewardship to a nationally recognized and highly sought-after innovative training model focused on abortion, miscarriage care, contraception and pregnancy options counseling.

• Kristie has facilitated multiple Miscarriage Management Training Programs, providing technical assistance and training that’s led to the initiation of outpatient miscarriage services at community and federally qualified health centers.

• As a Trainer of “Trainers” for the Our Whole Lives Lifespan Sexuality Education Curricula, Kristie has trained over 250 community members throughout the country to facilitate the community and church-based program for grade 7-12 students.

• At Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Kristie held three different positions. As a Site Manager, she managed operational and facility practices for a clinic with family planning, abortion, and grant funded teen specific services. As a Regional Float Manager, she managed regional staffing and training, and as Regional Training Manager, she established and implemented the first standardized training programs for health center staff in the three state, 26 site affiliate. She was also part of a small team that built and rolled out their first practice management system.

• As a longtime member of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health’s Adult Training Cadre, Kristie provided professional development workshops to social service providers and sexuality educators throughout the state of Illinois. Kristie also served on many of their community committees, including the Healthcare Network, and as a contractor completed a curriculum mapping project for the Chicago Public School District’s sexuality education health materials.

• As an original board member with GLSEN-Philadelphia and their program committee chair, Kristie led successful collaborations to implement their inaugural Safe Schools Ally program.

• Kristie has provided direct service with a variety of social service and healthcare agencies addressing underserved populations including Action AIDS, the Adolescent Parenting Program at City Avenue Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women.

• Kristie is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), National Abortion Federation (NAF), and the Abortion Care Network (ACN).

Evident in these career highlights, Kristie loves systems change and assisting folks with their personal growth. With a genuine and collaborative approach, Kristie has spread enthusiasm and wherewithal across the country for folks to provide inclusive, safe, and accessible spaces, programs, and services in their communities.

Kristie has spent much of her career, and especially the last decade, seeing the most well-intentioned champions wanting to change the systems they are working in but not having the time, energy, resources, political wherewithal, etc. to get the job done. With KM Consulting & Training she is poised to become a partner with all of you champions out there.

If you are looking to implement a new service, improve a service, create a new resource or a new way of doing something, whether in a health care setting, an education setting, or with a personal circumstance, reach out to see how Kristie can help. She is ready and excited to provide whatever and wherever her skills can lend a hand.