About Us

Missie Quillen oversees the development and operation of KASAP. She provides a structure which promotes collaboration, support, and cooperation for the membership and for allied professionals and groups. Missie also administers KASAP funding including monitoring budget and long range financial planning. She ensures that KASAP is compliant with all funding source requirements and regulations, as well as identifying additional sources of funding and advocating for state funding. Mrs. Quillen also works closely with the Board of Directors to ensure that the policies the Board has created are being translated correctly and accordingly. Missie develops and administers program activities for KASAP in accordance with its mission and within the guidelines set forth by the Board of Directors. 

Olivia Given is the Advocacy Specialist at KASAP. As the Advocacy specialist, Olivia supports KASAP's efforts to understand and react to sexual violence through an anti-oppression framework. Olivia works with each rape crisis center to ensure that our services and the delivery of those services are accessible for each person through technical assistance, trainings, resource support and sharing, etc. Working from an anti-oppression framework, Olivia focuses on how to best serve and support survivors in shifting thinking from the interpersonal level to the structural level when discussing sexual violence.  

Astraea is responsible for overseeing the implementation of sustainable primary prevention of sexual violence programming statewide. She also serves as staff to the Program Implementation Committee, collaborates with the state core building team, assists in the development of community prevention teams, provides on-site visits and prevention-related training to the Rape Crisis Centers, and serves as the liaison between Green Dot, etc. and KASAP. Previous to joining KASAP, Astraea worked on William & Mary’s campus as a Healthy Relationships/Sexual Violence Prevention Peer Health Educator and as a Confidential Advocate for survivors of sexual assault. Additionally, she interned at the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance, working on their Red Flag Campaign. If you have questions about Green Dot in Kentucky or want to get involved with prevention efforts, contact Astraea.

Stephanie Humes, MSSW, CSW, joined KASAP in 2017 after working over a decade at a regional rape crisis center program. She brings expert knowledge in the areas of direct client service provision, grant writing, grant management, agency and program budgeting and planning, compliance, program development and agency operations, as well as 10 years of extensive experience directly overseeing the largest VOCA grant award in Kentucky. As the KASAP Federal Grants Coordinator, Stephanie will be working directly with the 13 regional rape crisis centers to best utilize their VOCA funding to serve victims of sexual violence. She will assist programs in providing coordinated service delivery throughout Kentucky, while monitoring compliance with federal guidelines and developing and enhancing sustainable services.

Laela provides legislative advocacy, technical assistance, and training on sexual violence issues throughout the Commonwealth. In her role, she has the privilege of collaborating with advocates, law enforcement, health care staff, attorneys, and others to better address sexual violence from a legal standpoint. Areas of focus include civil and criminal laws, Title IX, human trafficking, confidentiality, and victim rights. Prior to joining KASAP, she worked at the Center for Women and Families as a legal advocate focusing on protection orders, family law, and campus sexual assault issues. She also served in the Peace Corps as a consultant at a domestic violence shelter in the Republic of Moldova. She is a graduate of Chase College of Law.

Serenda is the go-to person for SART (sexual assault response team) development. She is responsible for building collaboration relationships within the community. In her role as Collaboration Specialist, Serenda communicates with and provides training for KASAP's community partners including hospitals, military, prisons. She is also responsible for capacity building for community response to human trafficking.

Joan joined KASAP after working over 13 years as the Business Manager for the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center. She is responsible for the fiscal management of KASAPs financial information, tracking the daily and monthly financial transactions for the organization, check preparation, and providing financial reports for the Board of Directors. Ms. Mattingly provides technical assistance (as it relates for financial matters) for each of the Rape Crisis Centers, assists the Executive Director in preparing KASAPs annual budget, monitors and tracks grant related funds, provides necessary state and federal reports, and serves as a staff person for the Finance Committee. If you have questions regarding budgets, annual fiscal monitoring and results, spending contract money, check information, or the Finance Committee contact Ms. Mattingly. 

Robyn is the Communication Specialist at KASAP, ensuring that KASAP's communication is survivor-centered and consistent with our mission to speak with a unified voice against sexual violence. Robyn manages KASAP's website and social media content, and overall communications strategy. Contact Robyn with media requests.

Emily Tamas, MEd., has been with KASAP since 2007. She started her career as a rape crisis service provider; but has worked with multiple populations over the years including adult homeless, children in foster care, and children in residential treatment programs. As Program Coordinator for KASAP, she provides guidance and support to Kentucky’s rape crisis centers to keep them in compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements while always keeping focus on client services. Emily collects and compiles data specific to numbers of clients served, services provided, and client satisfaction regarding those services. Emily also provides training on multiple topics for programs and community members.

Together with Joan, the accounting assistant provides technical assistance (as it relates for financial matters) for each of the Rape Crisis Centers, assists the Executive Director in preparing KASAPs annual budget, monitors and tracks grant related funds, provides necessary state and federal reports.