Meet Our Team
Brave Alliance’s forensic nursing team and board are a compassionate, trauma-informed group of professionals dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and non-fatal strangulation, and to educating the community.
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Crystal Love-Carroll
Forensic Nurse Director
Founder | CEO
Brave Alliance Executive Director and Forensic Nurse Director, Crystal Love, is a Registered Nurse and certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with 24 years of nursing experience, including 18 years in forensic nursing. She has extensive experience providing trauma-informed medical forensic care for patients across the lifespan affected by sexual assault, domestic violence, strangulation, child abuse, and human trafficking.
Crystal founded Brave Alliance, a Central Texas community-based forensic nursing program, to expand access to compassionate, patient-centered forensic healthcare services in underserved communities. Under her leadership, Brave Alliance has grown into a multidisciplinary response program serving multiple counties throughout Central Texas and providing hundreds of medical forensic exams annually.
In addition to direct patient care, Crystal is an experienced educator and expert witness who regularly collaborates with hospitals, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, advocacy organizations, and community partners to improve victim response systems and forensic nursing practices. Her work focuses on increasing access to specialized forensic healthcare while ensuring a compassionate, victim-centered approach for every patient served.
Outside of her professional work, Crystal enjoys reading, homeschooling and attending her children's sports events, along with spending time with her family at the beach or on a vacation. Born and raised in Central Texas, she is married to her husband, Jeff, and is the proud mother of five children—three girls and two boys—and a grandmother of two, affectionately known as “Coco.”
Forensic Nurse Coordinator
Krisha Cook
Krisha is a registered nurse and forensic nurse examiner dedicated to trauma-informed care for survivors of violence. Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, she holds a BS in Zoology from Texas Tech University and an Associate Degree in Nursing from South Plains College.
Her nursing career spans labor and delivery, pediatrics, oncology, IDD homes, hospice, quality assurance, and forensic nursing. She has built a reputation for delivering empathetic, trauma-informed care to adults and children during difficult moments.
Krisha became an Adult/Adolescent SANE in 2021 and a Pediatric SANE in 2024. That same year, she was named SANE Coordinator at Brave, where she trains other nurses in forensic examination techniques and supports multidisciplinary efforts in healthcare and justice. She also speaks publicly on the role of forensic nurses and has expert witness training.
Outside of work, Krisha cherishes time with her three adult children, volunteers with Rodeo Austin, and works as event staff at concerts and events around Austin.
Noor Wehbe is a forensic nurse examiner and educator with a background in emergency and trauma nursing. After years at the bedside of survivors, she pursued her Master's degree in Forensic Nursing to deepen the care she could offer.
With a decade of nursing experience, Noor holds multiple board certifications and conducts forensic medical exams for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and strangulation providing care that is thorough, compassionate, and always centered on the patient. Her clinical work is rooted in the belief that how care is delivered matters just as much as the care itself.
Beyond the exam room, Noor is deeply committed to education. She trains and educates healthcare providers, law enforcement, victim advocates, and community members helping build the knowledge and systems that survivors deserve. She also provides expert courtroom testimony, lending her expertise when survivors need a skilled and steady voice in the room.
For Noor, this work is both a profession and a purpose.
When she's not working, you'll find her underwater scuba diving somewhere new in the world.
Forensic Nurse Educator
Noor Wehbe
Forensic Nurses
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Laura was born and raised in the former Panama Canal Zone, and moved to the United States (Texas) at the age of 22. After living in the US for years, she completed her BSN at Texas Christian University via a ROTC scholarship. She spent nearly 19 years on active duty as an Army Nurse, specializing in Critical Care. Laura earned her CCRN certification in 2007. She had duty assignments at FT Stewart, Georgia; Walter Reed Army Medical Center; FT Hood, Texas; and the US Army Burn Center in San Antonio. In addition, she was deployed twice to Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. She has 24 years of nursing experience providing trauma-informed care for patients across the lifespan, with four years of forensic nursing experience.
It was during her time in the Army that Laura realized how many women had been sexually assaulted but did not report or were unable to report due to unavailable services.
When she isn’t working, Laura can be found spending time with family and friends, riding and competing her horses in dressage, and spending time on her little ranchette.
Laura
Many things in life prepared Kathryn for this kind of nursing . At 17 due to a family tragedy, she was forced to leave nursing and go in another direction yet never stopped thinking about nursing.
She didn't realize the benefit teaching child development to high school students would be to what was next. She completed her BSN in 2009 with the support of her husband and kids. She worked as a Nurse Family Partnership nurse for 6 years, in antepartum for a short time, and in public health providing care for women seeking asylum and in 2019, she earned her Master's in nursing education.
While teaching at Texas A&M Central TX, she heard about SANE work. She learned how great the need for forensic nursing was, pursued her training through Texas A&M, and began working at the Williamson County Child Advocacy Center during COVID. Not long after that, she resigned from teaching to give her full attention to SANE work.
It has been a challenge and a calling to provide not only evidence collection for children and adolescents but a warmth of presence without judgement to each person she encounters. She counts it as a privilege to work hand in hand with our MDT partners to provide excellence in service, care, and cooperation for the benefit of the survivor.
She now has the privilege of testifying as an expert witness on their behalf and helping the Academy of Forensic Nursing develop CEU's for other forensic nurses on Trauma Informed Care .
Kathryn
Cherry
Born and raised in Texas, Cherry completed all of her education in her home state while also raising her children. She has dedicated 31 years to a nursing career, with a strong background in both intensive care and clinic nursing.
In 2024, Cherry returned to school and earned her Master’s degree in Forensic Nursing from Texas A&M University. Following graduation, she began her career in forensic nursing, combining decades of clinical experience with specialized training to support patients in a new and impactful way.
Laci
Laci is a Coloradoan, transplanted to Texas in 2022. She is married to her best friend and is a mother of four, who she enjoys spending much of her free time with!
She has filled various roles in the medical field since 2003, as CNA, medical assistant, becoming an RN in 2020. and has most recently pursued her calling as a forensic nurse. She has been certified and proficient in adult, adolescent, and pediatric medical forensic exams since 2023. Laci fulfills her role with the sentiment that, “my vision of nursing is to entrust and allow God to use my brokenness and blessings to promote the welfare and healing of others.” She is prayerful that her interaction with each patient will make a lasting and nurturing impression upon them!
Laikyn
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Hannah
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Megan
Megan played collegiate softball before pursuing a career in nursing and graduated from nursing school in 2019. She began her nursing career in adult hematology/oncology, where she worked for one year before transitioning to pediatric hematology/oncology, where she has cared for patients and families for the past six years.
She was drawn to forensic nursing because she wanted a career that would allow her to help others, make a meaningful difference, and continuously challenge her while providing opportunities for lifelong learning. She is passionate about patient advocacy and providing compassionate care during some of life’s most difficult moments. Outside of work, she enjoys making memories with her family through camping trips, outdoor adventures, and time spent with her son and their two golden retrievers as they prepare to welcome their daughter!
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Board of Directors
Kristin Hull
President
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Dr. Ramon E. Fry II has served as a board member for Brave Alliance for more than six years and has served as Medical Director since June 2025.
A Physician Assistant since 2004, Dr. Fry currently serves as the Forensic Healthcare Director for Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and practices as an Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant. Residency-trained in Emergency Medicine, he earned the Emergency Medicine Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) through the NCCPA.
Dr. Fry retired from the United States Army in 2014 after 22 years of honorable service, including multiple combat deployments. He is also actively involved in medical education, serving as Assistant Professor and adjunct faculty for the U.S. Army/Baylor University Doctorate of Science Residency in Physician Assistant Studies–Emergency Medicine and as adjunct faculty for the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Physician Assistant Program.
He earned degrees from the University of Nebraska and Baylor University and is currently pursuing a Master of Education for Healthcare Professionals at Texas A&M University. Outside of work, Dr. Fry enjoys travel, gardening, pop culture, and spending time with his wife of more than 20 years.