Board of Directors

Nikki K. Conley

Nikki Conley is the founder and CEO of Health Quest Solutions, Incorporated. While growing up in Atlanta, Georgia she participated in many sports and activities through Dekalb County Parks and Recreation. She also had an excellent physical education teacher, Ms. Allen, who taught her the importance of living a healthy life style while also having great fun in class. The foundation was set, her introduction to sports, health, and fitness would deeply impact how she lives her life today.

Nikki also understood from a very young age the importance of being active and giving back to her community. While still a junior in high school she coached an all girls twelve and under basketball team at Gresham Park Recreation Center that won the summer league championship.

After high school Nikki attended Fort Valley State University on a full basketball scholarship and earned a BS degree in health and physical education. She also earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. After graduate school Nikki taught health and physical education in Atlanta Public Schools for eleven years. During that time she was awarded the Coca-Cola Coach of the Year Award, served as the wellness coordinator for South Atlanta Educational Complex, and worked as a GIFT Scholar writing and developing health curriculum at Georgia Tech Center for Education Computing and Mathematics.

During Nikki’s free time she enjoys spending time with family and friends, travelling, helping and inspiring people to live healthy, happy and purposeful lives.

Natasha D. Harrigan

Natasha D. Harrigan has served as the athletic director at Benjamin Elijah Mays High School in Atlanta, GA since 2010. Prior to accepting that position, she spent five years as the head girls’ basketball coach at Mays High School. She comes with an extensive athletic background as a former student-athlete and head coach for twelve years.

The Queens, New York native defied the odds of growing up in the streets of the inner city. Her family moved to the South during her early teenager years. In high school, she played basketball and after making two state final appearances, she helped make history when her team won the first girls’ basketball state championship at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida. Harrigan attended Fort Valley State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health and Physical Education. Harrigan also received both her Master’s of Science degree in Education and Specialist Degree in Educational Leadership from Cambridge College in Boston, Massachusetts.

During her first year of teaching in Atlanta Public Schools at Thurgood Marshall, she coached a group of young ladies who won the Atlanta Public Schools City Girls’ Basketball Championship. For the next five years, Harrigan coached volleyball, girls’ basketball and track at George Washington Carver High School in Atlanta. She was most successful in leading the girls’ basketball team to the first state appearance in the school’s rich history! Upon the closing of her school, she spent the next three years at Cedar Grove High School in Dekalb County. She was thrilled when Atlanta Public School officials asked to come back to coach in the district where she’d previously helped student athletes achieve extraordinary success.

During her tenure at Mays, she has been blessed to hold a 24 game winning streak, named Coca Cola’s Coach of the Year twice, won the 6-5A Region Girls Basketball Tournament and earned several other accolades.

Under Harrigan’s leadership at Benjamin E. Mays High School, the athletic department has already made significant strides in becoming a leader in Georgia high school athletics. The Athletic Department has seen a rise in graduation rates among its student-athletes, launched an enhanced website, become connected with social media and continued to bridge the gap between students and positive entities in the community.

Harrigan holds memberships to the Georgia Athletic Director’s Association (GADA) as well as the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. She received her Certified Athletic Administrator (CAA) certification in December 2013 and within the next two years, her goal is to hold her Certified Master Athletic Administrator (CMAA) certification.

She is the daughter of Raymond and Charmaine Faverey of New York. Harrigan says the couple raised her to be strong, focused and determined to succeed. She treasures the opportunity to do the same for the many students who see her as a positive role model. As a member of the HQS, Inc team, she continues to strive in making her mark in this world–a mark of fitness that can never be erased!

Dr. Kimberly A. Parker

Dr. Kimberly A. Parker is an Associated Professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. She earned both a BS in Psychology and a MA in Rehabilitation Counseling from South Carolina State University. She also hold a MPH in Health Promotion, Education and Behavior from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, and a PhD in Health Behavior and Promotion from College of Public Health at the University of Georgia.

Dr. Parker conducts qualitative and mixed-methods research which examine sexual behaviors that influence STI and HIV transmission among diverse populations. She currently serves as the Principle Investigator for the “Lend Us Your Voice” Project, a qualitative study which examines the lived experience of HIV positive African American women in the South. Other research projects include examining predictor variables to assess the likelihood of using pre-exposure prophylactics (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission, and evaluating “Hope in Our Soul” and” Dose of Hope,” interventions that target faith based organizations to increase minority participation in biomedical prevention research. Dr. Parker’s past research includes serving as the qualitative researcher/evaluator for the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) ISIS 064 grant in the Atlanta-Metropolitan area, a two year prospective study to estimate the overall HIV type 1 incidence rates among women at risk for HIV acquisition. She was also the qualitative evaluator for a Phase I clinical trial to assess safety, tolerability, and product acceptability of a vaginal mircobicide gel (UC781) being studied to prevent HIV transmission.

Dr. Parker has written several articles and book chapters about HIV/AIDS and its impact among African Americans, and has written for the Dallas Morning News as a guest columnist. Her research interest includes social sexual factors that influence HIV transmission in African Americans, reproductive and sexual health, women’s health and health disparities and she has is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES). Her research background brings a unique strength to the mission of HQS, Inc.