Who We Are
Led by Lived Experience & Expertise
Board of Directors
MFA's Board of Directors provides strategic leadership and governance for the organization, guiding our mission, advocacy priorities, and work on behalf of Michigan families.
Stephanie Jones
Founder & President
Stephanie Jones founded Michigan Fertility Alliance in 2019 after her own experience with secondary infertility and surrogacy exposed the barriers Michigan families faced when they needed assisted reproduction to grow their families.
What began as a deeply personal fight grew into a statewide advocacy movement. Under Stephanie's leadership, MFA helped lead the successful effort to pass the Michigan Family Protection Act, transforming Michigan's surrogacy and parentage laws.
Building on that work, Stephanie went on to co-found State Strong, a national organization focused on state-based fertility and family-building policy and advocacy, and First Circle Policy Partners, a policy strategy and advisory firm focused on advancing effective family-building policy.
Today, Stephanie continues to lead MFA's policy and advocacy strategy while working nationally to protect and advance access to fertility care and family building.
In 2024, Stephanie received the RESOLVE Hope Award for Advocacy in recognition of her work on behalf of the family-building community.
Cherish Paska
Board of Directors | Chief Gifting Officer
After years of infertility, Cherish Paska's journey led her to IVF and ultimately to welcoming her son in 2021.
Her experience sparked a passion for ensuring other families feel seen, supported, and represented throughout their own family-building journeys.
Cherish helps lead MFA's fundraising, community engagement, and donor relationships, helping build the resources necessary to sustain and grow the organization's advocacy work.
Ginanne Brownell
Board of Directors
Ginanne Brownell is a journalist, author, mother through surrogacy, and longtime MFA advocate.
After being diagnosed with unexplained infertility, Ginanne and her husband pursued gestational surrogacy. Originally from Michigan, they hoped to work with a gestational carrier in the state but ultimately had to pursue their journey in Illinois because of Michigan's former surrogacy laws.
Ginanne is the author of Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter's Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy and brings her experience in journalism, research, storytelling, and lived experience to MFA's work.
Kevin O'Neill
Board of Directors
Kevin is a proud father to triplets, born through surrogacy. Kevin is dedicated to making the path to parenthood less daunting for others who are considering starting a family through alternative methods. When he's not navigating the joyful chaos of raising three toddlers, Kevin serves as an administrative executive at the University of Michigan and as devoted dog dad to Max, completing their family.
Volunteer Council
Advocacy Powered by Community
MFA began as a grassroots movement, and volunteers remain at the heart of our work.
Our Volunteer Council is made up of people who have turned their own experiences with infertility, IVF, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and family building into action for others.
They lend their voices, experiences, time, and expertise to MFA's advocacy, education, events, community engagement, and grassroots efforts across Michigan.
LeAndrea Fisher
Infertility advocate, educator, founder of Hope In Fertility, and founding Co-Chair of the Detroit Walk of Hope.
Chelsea Berry
Infertility and IVF advocate who uses her lived experience to educate, advocate, and bring greater awareness to the realities of trying to build a family through fertility care.
Aubrey Gojcaj
Mother through surrogacy and longtime MFA advocate whose own family-building experience helped fuel the fight to change Michigan's outdated surrogacy laws.
Laura Muysenberg
IVF mom and infertility advocate passionate about women's health, fertility care, and pro-family policy.
Sue Johnston
Author, support group leader, founder of The Infertility Advocate, and Co-Founder of the Detroit Walk of Hope.
Leah Zientek
Fertility advocate and former gestational carrier who brought the gestational carrier perspective to MFA's successful advocacy for the Michigan Family Protection Act.
Advisory Board
MFA's Advisory Board brings additional expertise, perspective, and leadership to our work. Advisory Board members serve as trusted thought partners as MFA navigates the evolving medical, legal, policy, and advocacy landscape surrounding fertility care and family building.
Dr. Molly Moravek
Advisory Board
Dr. Molly Moravek (she/her) is a board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist who earned her MD and MPH from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. She completed her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Northwestern University, where she also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation. She currently practices at RMAof Michigan in Livonia.
Prior to joining RMA of Michigan, Dr. Moravek served as Division Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Henry Ford Health in partnership with Michigan State University Health Sciences. She previously spent more than a decade at Michigan Medicine, where she held several academic and leadership roles, including Program Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Fellowship.
Dr. Moravek specializes in all aspects of fertility care, including IVF, fertility preservation, LGBTQIA+ family building, third-party reproduction, and hysteroscopic surgery. She is nationally recognized for her expertise in fertility preservation and oncofertility, as well as her commitment to inclusive, patient-centered care.
Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq.
Advisory Board
Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq. is an attorney specializing in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) law who has spent more than 30 years helping intended parents build and legally protect their families through surrogacy, egg, sperm and embryo donation, second-parent adoption, and stepparent adoption.
A nationally recognized leader in ART and family-building law, Meryl works collaboratively with legal, medical, advocacy, and policy professionals to advance legislation protecting people who build their families through assisted reproduction. She was actively involved in the passage of Washington, D.C.'s 2016 surrogacy law and was instrumental in drafting the final ABA Model Act Governing Assisted Reproduction (2019) and the ABA Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology Agencies (2016). She currently co-chairs the effort to update these model acts.
Meryl is the immediate Past President and a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), where she previously served on the ART Executive Committee and chaired the ART Membership Committee. She is also a past chair and Executive Board member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Legal Professional Group and previously co-chaired the Legal Advisory Committee of Path2Parenthood.
Her extensive professional service also includes leadership with the American Bar Association Family Law Section, where she previously served as CLE Liaison and with its Reproductive Technology Committee and currently serves on its Executive and CLE Committees. She is a member of the LGBTQ+ Bar's Family Law Institute, a professional member of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, a past board member of the Jewish Fertility Foundation, an Advisory Board member of The Cade Foundation, and a member of the Grants Committee for The Surrogacy Foundation.
Meryl has served as a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Law and American University Washington College of Law and is a frequent national and international speaker for AAAA, the ABA Family Law Section, ASRM, Rainbow Families DC, and other organizations on ART, surrogacy, and family-building law.
She has also authored numerous articles for professional publications, magazines, and online outlets addressing third-party reproduction, with particular expertise in surrogacy and gamete donation. In addition to her professional advocacy, Meryl is actively involved with and serves on the boards of several philanthropic organizations.
Laura Dennison Berge
Advisory Board
Laura Dennison Berge is a passionate advocate for families navigating infertility, loss, and parenthood. Drawing on her own lived experience, she is a strong voice for ensuring that families are heard, supported, and represented in the policies and systems that shape their lives.
As a former Co-Chair of the Michigan Walk of Hope, Laura brought together families, advocates, and community partners to raise awareness and provide support to those facing fertility challenges. She has shared her story publicly, including with The Detroit News during a roundtable discussion with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Laura also served for three years as a state captain for federal advocacy efforts, helping amplify the voices of individuals and families affected by infertility. She continues to advocate for children and families through her involvement in early childhood and elementary education initiatives.
Laura holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Advertising and Marketing from Michigan State University. As a member of MFA’s Advisory Board, Laura brings together her communications expertise, grassroots advocacy experience, and deep commitment to ensuring families have a meaningful voice in the policies and issues that affect their lives.
In Loving Memory
Alexandra “Alex” Kamer
Forever an MFA Champion
Alexandra “Alex” Kamer was a mother through surrogacy, a fierce advocate for Michigan families, and an integral member of the Michigan Fertility Alliance family.
Alex courageously shared her family's story and became a driving force in the fight to pass the Michigan Family Protection Act. She believed deeply that future Michigan families should never have to face the barriers her family encountered, and she used her voice and her story to help make that vision a reality.
Alex passed away in October 2024 after a battle with cancer, but her impact on MFA and Michigan families continues.
In her honor, MFA established the Alexandra Kamer Champion Award, recognizing individuals who embody Alex's extraordinary spirit of advocacy and her commitment to making life better for families who come after them. The award ensures that Alex's legacy continues by celebrating those who, like Alex, are willing to speak up, lead, and fight for change.
Alex showed us what one person's voice can accomplish. The Alexandra Kamer Champion Award ensures that her voice—and the example she set—continues to inspire the next generation of family-building champions.