Meet Our Board
We've Been Where You Are.
Meghan Miller
Chair
My name is Meghan Miller and I have been on the FSP board for seven years. My son Jacob brought my husband and I to the support group in 2007. Jacob was our first son and born prematurely at just 24 weeks gestation. We spent just over three months by his side in the neonatal intensive care unit. Having been born so soon, he was unable to fight a serious infection. Saying goodbye to our sweet baby boy was and is still the most difficult thing I have ever had to do. Life as we knew it changed when we had to leave the hospital without our baby boy. I have been on the journey to healing with the help of my family, friends and time spent with Friends Supporting Parents. We were blessed with three more children after our loss and cherish the opportunity to raise them. Throughout this difficult time in my life I have been lucky to have the support necessary to feel cared for and loved. While in the Chair position, I strive to be able to bring the same support to the families who are in need.
Daryl Stephens
Board Member
My wife and I first found FSP within a month of losing Jude, our first son. We were both excited and scared with all the trepidations soon-to-be parents experience, but nothing could have prepared us for the chain of events that happened in August 2016. An otherwise normal pregnancy very quickly became anything but ordinary. A routine visit with some slightly elevated readings turned into an emergency triage admittance, resulting in Jude passing at 30 weeks and my wife developing a myriad of complications from preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome. In addition to losing our son, I also had to face the trauma of almost losing my wife.FSP became a much-needed outlet to share my thoughts, feelings, and frustrations with people who truly “got it.” Their stories were different, but we shared a common bond of a life taken far too soon. Through regular meetings, my wife and I began to work through our grief and get to a point where we could start to help others in their own grief journey. What we learned helped us to face a very similar ordeal with the birth of our second son, River, thankfully with a different outcome. We are incredibly grateful for the group’s assistance in our time of need, and I am thankful for the opportunity to keep Jude’s memory alive and help others in the process.
Ashley Riley-Schedler-Mazure
Board Member
My name is Ashley Riley-Schedler-Mazure, and I joined the FSP board in 2024. My family was introduced to FSP while we were planning the funeral for our sweet and mischievous Liam Rose in September 2021. After experiencing a miscarriage in 2020, we were overjoyed to be expecting Liam. However, my pregnancy was incredibly challenging due to hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). At just 27 weeks, Liam made his way into the world and was immediately admitted to the NICU. We prepared for a long stay, finding comfort in what became our home away from home. Tragically, just one week later, Liam passed away from an intracranial hemorrhage. At the time, I was already in therapy, but I knew my husband and I would need additional support. When we were given information about FSP, we decided to attend our first meeting about a month after Liam’s passing. We weren’t sure if it would be the right fit or if we had the emotional capacity to participate, but we quickly found a brave space in this compassionate community. Nothing will ever make losing Liam okay. However, I have found comfort in learning how to carry both my love and grief alongside others who understand. As a board member, my hope is to help others find gentleness in their own journeys of love and loss.
Zach Mazure
Board Member
Josh Maddox
Board Member
Claudia Tapia
Co-Chair
My name is Claudia and I joined FSP in 2017 just two months after losing our precious baby girl Liliana Faith. In January 2017 at our 20 week ultrasound, what should’ve been a joyful day where we find out the sex of our baby, turned into a living nightmare. We were told our daughter had underdeveloped heart chambers along with several other malformations. After an agonizing week of testing, she was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, which we were told was a condition ‘incompatible with life’. It was a long and difficult road after receiving her diagnosis, but we began a journey of faith, hope and so much love. On April 25, 2017, we met our daughter Liliana and got to love on her for 30 minutes before she passed. As everyone here unfortunately knows firsthand, the pain from infant loss is deep and the grief is all-consuming. Finding FSP was my life preserver. Meeting other families who have walked this unthinkable road and are still standing gives hope to so many grieving parents. Like everyone, I miss my baby girl every day, but it brings me great joy to honor her life and memory by sharing her story with others. We all want to hear people speak our childs’ names and acknowledge their lives. You can do that here.I also write about Liliana on my personal blog at madeforheaven.online. It’s an outlet that allows me to capture all the good that has come from Liliana’s life and the blessings we’ve received. And now I want to walk this road with others and share the hope that was given to me.
Rick Miller
Treasurer
My wife Meghan I came to FSP 6 months after losing our first son Jacob. It was hard for us to find a group that dealt specifically with infant loss but once we found FSP we knew that we would be involved with the group for a very long time. Losing Jacob changed me as a person and brought me to what we refer to as the “new normal”. Jacob is missed everyday and we long for the day when we see him again. That being said, I have taken this terrible loss and used it to help others through the worst thing a parent can go through. By facilitating the monthly meetings, Meghan and I are able to share Jacobs story, provide a loving and caring environment for others to share the stories of their babies, and share ideas for parents to deal with their grief. I am very glad that we made the decision to become board members and now to lead this group into the future to help as many parents as possible.
Hailey Maddox
Secretary
My husband and I found FSP in June of 2021, a month after losing our beautiful boy, Jeronimo, to a life-limiting condition. Attending monthly meetings became an incredible source of comfort and community, as we learned to navigate our grief. That same community supported us through subsequent pregnancy losses, secondary infertility and pregnancy after loss. I am forever grateful to the FSP community for walking this difficult path alongside us, and hope to use my role as a board member to help others find the same comfort and understanding.
Sarah Clemons
Board Member