Monica Summers

Monica Summers has been employed with Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell Agency (PHSSCA) for 18 years and is program director for the Sickle Cell Division, Camp Director, and Emergency Food Pantry Coordinator. In 2003, Summers became a certified sickle cell educator/counselor through The University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center.

She received her Master’s Degree in Public Health from Liberty University in 2014. Educating others about SCD is a personal mission for her. Summers along with her husband, Channing Sr., whom she has been married for 15 years, continues to work full time and care for their two children, CJ (14) and Jayla (10), who have SCD. Summers knows from personal experience the needs that many parents of children with SCD face; because these are the same needs that she faces.