Founder

While running her own business, Stacey has worked as a mindfulness specialist for a Philadelphia public school, for a Philadelphia private special education school and for Engaging Support Enriching Lives, a grant-funded project focused on ameliorating punitive practices in Chester Upland School District. She is featured in the documentary film “Divided Attention: When the Children Who Need the Most Receive the Least”. Stacey wrote the Afterword entitled “Rage from the Mindful Moment Room” for the book Lost Voices of Prisoners Serving Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania. 

Stacey is a certified professional mindfulness teacher (CMT-P) with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She interweaves best practices and components from diverse teachers and curriculums, but considers herself a lifelong student of Tibetan Buddhism. She is a certified Trauma-Competent Professional with Lakeside Global Institute, and occasionally facilitates on trauma awareness. Previously, Stacey spent 15 years teaching grades K-8 in CA, NJ and PA, and four years as an instructional coach on best practices in literacy and classroom culture for Children’s Literacy Initiative.  She is credentialed to teach elementary school and English for grades 7-12, 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 mindfulness and meditation instructor for incarcerated youth and adults, 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 Directors for CMP Radio Foundation and International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She is a core member of Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools and Coordinator for the Mindfulness and Social Change Network. Stacey co-hosts the podcast “Too School for Cool”, creates “Keep Open” boxes and is a Reiki practitioner and a trained medicinal aromatherapist.