Founder

Stacey offer her own services through BIG and works as a mindfulness specialist for students with behavioral and emotional needs in the Mill Creek School under Public Health Management Corporation. Previously, she was the mindfulness specialist on a five year project called ESEL to help schools ameliorate punitive practices and combat the school to prison pipeline.  Stacey’s work is featured in the documentary film “Divided Attention: When the Children Who Need the Most Receive the Least”.  She teaches mindfulness to incarcerated youth being held in adult prisons and incarcerated women in recovery, and is an independent mindfulness contractor for Minding Your Mind. 

Stacey is a certified professional mindfulness teacher (CMT-P) with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, and a certified “Trauma-Competent Professional” with Lakeside Global Institute.  Having trained in a variety of mindfulness programs with diverse teachers, Stacey takes an eclectic and individualized approach to teaching while she derives inspiration from her personal practice experiences in Tibetan Buddhism.  Previously, Stacey spent 14 years teaching grades K-8 in CA, NJ and PA, and four years as a literacy instruction coach and facilitator for Children’s Literacy Initiative.  She holds a Master’s degree in Social Foundations of Education from California State University, and a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Stacey volunteers as a prison monitor for PA Prison Society, and as a pardon coach for Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity.  She serves on the board of CMP Radio Foundation, and is an active member of Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools.  Stacey is a Reiki practitioner and certified medicinal aromatherapist who lives for bacon, graffiti, walking errands and her daughter’s original music!