Meet The Team
Shelby Meaders, MPH
she/her
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Shelby Meaders, MPH is the Executive Director of the Florida Harm Reduction Collective. Shelby has years of experience in public, private, and non-profit sectors. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Florida State University in 2015 and a Master of Public Health in 2018, with a specialization in health policy and management.
Prior to her current role, Shelby managed a statewide overdose prevention and naloxone distribution program through the Florida Department of Children and Families. Shelby has had the opportunity to present on harm reduction and overdose prevention initiatives at events, conferences, and podcast including the Florida Behavioral Health Conference. Shelby resides in sunny St. Petersburg, FL, plays an active role in St Pete Pride, and is a proud harm reductionist.
Tim Santamour
he/him
DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH & NETWORKING
Tim Santamour is Director of Outreach and Networking for Florida Harm Reduction Collective and a long time AIDS and Harm Reduction activist. Since the early 80s, Tim has played an active role in founding several support groups and organizations, including Prevention Point Buffalo (1991), a Syringe Services Program, and Moving Equipment (1995) in New York City, which began street-based overdose prevention education and naloxone distribution in 1997.
In 2019 he helped found Florida Harm Reduction Collective as a statewide network of Overdose Recognition and Reversal and HIV/Hepatitis C Prevention organizations aimed at furthering harm reduction Initiatives serving people who use drugs, their families, and communities. As a gay man living with the experiences of substance use and the AIDS crisis Tim has focused his energies on ending HIV and the harms associated with substance use in Florida, nationally, and globally.
Nikki Medina Rodriguez
she/her
VACCINE NAVIGATOR
Nikki (she/her/hers) began her work in Harm Reduction in 2019 following the overdose death of her best friend, Jason. Armed with only wound care supplies and Narcan, she began doing regular street outreach to drug users in NE Florida, and founded Underground Recovery Jax. Through her initiative, she has connected with harm reduction activists statewide and has helped lay the foundation for the Florida Harm Reduction Collective.
Nikki identifies as a Latina woman in long-term recovery not defined by abstinence.
Melissa Salazar
they/them
HIV Peer Outreach
I am Co-founder of UndergroundRecoveryJax, CRPS, CRSS and HIV Peer Outreach Worker, FLHRC.
2022 Latino Leader award for Duval County.
Attending FSCJ for AA in Arts
Latino Recovery Advocate
Alexa Mutchler
she/her
PROGRAMS DIRECTOR
Alexa Mutchler began her harm reduction career in 2022 when she joined FLHRC as a Program Manager. With her bachelor's degree in Economics and background in mortgage lending, she brings a love of data collection and analysis to the team. She is currently studying to get her master's degree in Public Policy Analysis with the hopes of using data analysis and visualization to steer policy decisions towards strengthening harm reduction and ending the war on People Who Use Drugs in America.
As the child of two self-identified chaotic opioid users, Alexa deeply believes that People Who Use Drugs are humans who deserve compassion, respect, and dignity. She recognizes that everyone FLHRC helps is someone else's loved one and she is determined to help them as if they were her own.
Board of Directors
NANCY MCCONNELL MSW, MCAP, CRPS.
Rebel Recovery/FLASH Exchange - CEO
West Palm Beach, FL
ASHUNTE COLEMAN
Ladies Intervention Project for Success - Co-Founder
Statewide, FL
TYLER BARTHOLOMEW, PH.D.
IDEA Lab - Principal Investigator
Miami, FL
SARAH SMITH MHR, ICAADC, MCAP, CBHCMS-A/C.
Starting Point Behavioral Healthcare - Grants Director
Jacksonville, FL
EMELINA MARTINEZ
Manager of Safe Syringe Exchange Services - The SPOT
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
SUSAN NYAMORA MSW, NCPRSS.
South Florida Wellness Network - President and CEO
Fort Lauderdale, FL
HANSEL E. TOOKES, III, M.D., M.P.H
Assistant Professor, UM, Director, IDEA Exchange
Miami, FL
MICHELLE PEPIN
Picking up the Pieces - Founder
Ocala, FL
NICOLE MEDINA RODRIGUEZ
Underground Recovery Jax
Jacksonville, FL