Our Leadership team
Courtney Gary-Allen
Executive Director
Courtney Gary-Allen is the Executive Director of ME-RAP. As Executive Director, she leads a holistic approach to recovery, combining community organizing, policy advocacy, and direct support services to amplify the voices of people with lived experience.
Courtney’s policy work in Maine has helped advance opioid settlement transparency, Good Samaritan protections, naloxone education in schools, and much more. At 16, she earned her GED while caring for a young child, later completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Maine at Augusta (2020), Master’s at the Muskie School of Public Service (2025), and her first year of law school at Maine Law—all while saving lives, passing legislation, and caring for her own recovery process.
Tess Parks
Policy DirectoR
Tess Parks is the Policy Director of ME-RAP, working on statewide grassroots organizing, legislative campaigns, and civic engagement initiatives. She moved to Portland, Maine in 2014 to begin her journey in long-term recovery from substance use disorder.
Tess has worked in a variety of different fields, including behavioral health support, municipal economic development, and public education. Having a lifelong passion for social justice and advocacy, Tess completed her master's degree in Policy, Planning, and Management from the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Service.
Kate Reagan
OperationS Director
Kate Reagan is the Operations Director of ME-RAP, overseeing daily operations of the organization. Kate is a person in long-term recovery and a formerly incarcerated leader dedicated to building equitable systems of care in Maine. She brings extensive experience in nonprofit administration, grant writing, and community advocacy, grounded in the belief that lived experience is a powerful driver of systemic change.
Kate’s professional path is shaped by resilience, compassion, and dedication to equity and liberation. Her leadership reflects ME-RAP’s values, centering lived experience, challenging inequity, and building pathways for recovery that honor dignity and self-determination.
Maine Recovery ACCESS Project Board
Raegan LaRochelle
Board Chair
Linda Conti
Board Treasurer
Michael Miles
Board Secretary
Samantha Clayton
Board Member
Jacqueline Wilks
Board Member
Nick Loscocco
Board Member
Maine Recovery Action Project Board
Nick Loscocco
Board Chair
Jeanne Marquis
Board Treasurer
Jessica Schermer
Board Secretary
Emily Vance
Board Member