Our Staff
Senior Leadership Team


Jeff and Dick will work together in transition of leadership, with Jeff taking over as CEO effective May 29, 2020, and Dick continuing in a consultant role until June 19, 2020.
Mr. Kazmierczak began his career working with children on an inpatient psychiatric unit. He became interested in impacting the quality of services on a much larger scale and became a founding partner of a behavioral health contract management organization, dedicated to providing services to children and adolescents. In addition, he developed a community-based services organization which continues to grow providing case management, in-home therapy, day treatment and a variety of community support services for children and families.
During the past ten years, Mr. Kazmierczak also has provided interim and consulting services for multiple organizations, focusing on turnaround and/or enhancing behavioral health continuum of care services. Those engagements occurred in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Nevada, Missouri and Arizona (Phoenix Children’s Hospital). Jeff has a passion for leading teams and maximizing the Talent within organizations toward the goal of delivering high quality services and value to children, families, communities and payers alike




Akia Compton has been active in youth services since 1993, ranging from residential, independent living, juvenile justice and behavioral health. Her passion stems from being a youth enrolled in the system. Akia received her B.A. in Sociology and Criminal Justice from the University of Akron and her M.S. in Administration of Justice and Security from the University of Phoenix. Akia wanted to give back to her community and help other youth navigate the system in a positive way. She is also a parent of a child with behavioral health challenges. Akia started her work at MIKID in August of 2012. Her personal and professional endeavors have made her a valuable asset to MIKID.




















when she is not at work you can find her feeding the homeless or mentoring at risk youth. Marisela loves to travel and experience different cultures.


Marketing and Development Team








Family Support Managers Team












Paula is very passionate about helping children and families and is especially delighted to be working for MIKID, a peer/ family run organization, where families are encouraged to utilize their unique voice and exercise their own choice.








James has served in various capacities within the behavioral health field, including as a Crisis Specialist and a Case Manager in the Arizona Families First program, where he also provided Substance Use and Abuse Education services to parents involved with the Arizona Department of Child Safety. He is a Certified Family Support Provider. Additionally, he has experience serving domestic violence and abuse survivors as a Legal Advocate.
Prior to his career in behavioral health, James worked within the Justice field for twenty years. He served as a Probation Surveillance Officer monitoring a Youthful Offender Intensive Probation caseload among others. He served as a Tribal Prosecutor prosecuting criminal offenses as well as representing the tribe in child welfare cases. James also served as a Tribal Court Judge presiding over Criminal, Delinquency and Child Welfare matters and managing the tribe’s justice system.
Direct Support Managers Team




James has served in various capacities within the behavioral health field, including as a Crisis Specialist and a Case Manager in the Arizona Families First program, where he also provided Substance Use and Abuse Education services to parents involved with the Arizona Department of Child Safety. He is a Certified Family Support Provider. Additionally, he has experience serving domestic violence and abuse survivors as a Legal Advocate.
Prior to his career in behavioral health, James worked within the Justice field for twenty years. He served as a Probation Surveillance Officer monitoring a Youthful Offender Intensive Probation caseload among others. He served as a Tribal Prosecutor prosecuting criminal offenses as well as representing the tribe in child welfare cases. James also served as a Tribal Court Judge presiding over Criminal, Delinquency and Child Welfare matters and managing the tribe’s justice system.






Alexis' goal is to build and make an impact on her community by helping local youth dealing with struggles in behavioral health. She wishes they had a program like MIKID now offers when she herself was growing up in Sierra Vista.
Alexis has a passion for helping kiddos learn and grow. Watching and helping the kids become successful and reach all their goals is absolutely rewarding making her last two years experience "wonderful' since she has been with MIKID. Alexis' family is important to her and loves that MIKID's work centers around the family as much as the kiddos.




Kathryn enjoys working with members and wants to help guide a positive outlook in behavioral health services and life.
Parent Support Now
Data Research Team
Special Projects Team






Health and Wellness


Clinical Counseling




Transitional Age Youth




Medical Records and Billing Team




Angelica joined MIKID as the statewide billing manager in May 2021 and has 18 years’ experience working with behavioral health claims. She began her career in 2003 as a claims assistant progressing to manager in 2016.
Angelica is originally from California. However, she has lived in Arizona over 28 years and now considers Arizona her native state. In her free time, she enjoys going to the movies, trying out new cuisine and is looking forward to traveling around the United States. Angelica looks forward to helping make a difference at MIKID.










After raising two, now adult, children (looking forward to adding a son-in -law), she is now an empty nester. Spending time with her husband of 32 years is now one of her main focuses. She has been a huge fan of K-pop and Korean culture for almost 8 years, with K-pop music on her Spotify and watching Korean TV show (with English subtitles) as her way of de-stressing.




Cynthia is a native Arizonan and has worked in the medical field prior to MIKID as a biller, coder, and surgery scheduler.
Cindy also has a background in semi-conductor manufacturing as a Quality Control Specialist and as seasonal fashion model for Macy's, Bullock's Wilshire and Dress Barn in their junior wear departments.
Cindy enjoys spending her free time with her seven daughters and one son and volunteering with her aunt at the Wickenburg Senior Center. She also teaches tap and clog to her Girl Scout Troop and is an instructor of Country-Western line dancing at a national steakhouse franchise located throughout the southwest United States.
Aspiring to play characters like Truly Scrumptious, Cindy is currently attending Arizona State University working on her Masters in Performing Arts.
Cindy is excited to be a part of MIKID and looks forward to marrying her high-school sweetheart Christmas 2022.


Julie joined MIKID in May of 2022 as a billing specialist. She joined MIKID right after graduating from a medical billing and coding program and is working towards certification in coding. Before school she worked in coordinating home health services for patients coming out of hospitals and nursing facilities.
When she’s not at work, Julie likes to spend time with family and friends, eating good food or going to concerts to enjoy live music. She also loves to take her dog to new parks around Phoenix
Administrative Team




Regina (Reggie) Sotelo began her career with Mikid in June 2022 as Mikid’s Accounting Support Specialist. Reggie is an Arizona native that has spent the last 9 years working as a free-lance accounting professional for various companies. Reggie’s original background was in Forensics. She worked at the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office for 6 years as a Forensic Investigator, conducting death scene investigations, autopsies, and was the internship coordinator teaching college students’ proper techniques in the field and in the autopsy suite. Reggie was also an adjunct professor in the Forensic Sciences program at Coconino Community College.
Reggie is a lifelong learner and holds a master’s degree in forensic science and a bachelor’s of science degree in criminal justice & criminology. Reggie plans on heading back to school to work on a bachelor’s degree in forensic accounting to help further her knowledge in accounting and investigative techniques.
In her free time, she travels the world, listens to lots of music, reads books on interior/landscape design, watches True Crime shows, reads Tarot, and spends time with her two pups, Brodie and Jacob.


Ashley has her degree in Business Administration from Glendale Community College.

