Nikki King

Chief Executive Officer, Alliance Health Centers, Inc.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Dr. Nikki King is the chief executive officer for Alliance Health Centers, Inc. Her work serves both urban and rural populations and is focused on substance abuse, communities underserved in health care, affordable housing, and economic development. Before working in the health care industry, she worked for the Center of Business and Economic Research, studying models of sustainability in rural communities. Growing up as a first-generation college student in Appalachia, she brings lived experience of rural communities and approaches her work in health care as pivotal in breaking the cycle of poverty.