Founder

Stacey founded BIG Mindfulness & Meditation in 2017 to make mindfulness accessible to everyone. She partners with individuals, schools and organizations to deliver customized programming across diverse settings—always with the same unshakeable belief that mindfulness isn't a luxury. It's a birthright.

A Professional Certified Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P) through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Stacey has worked as a mindfulness specialist for public school districts, private special education schools and a grant-funded project focused on ameliorating punitive practices in Chester Upland School District— which was featured in the documentary film "Divided Attention: When the Children Who Need the Most Receive the Least." Throughout her career, she has transformed closets and junk into beautiful Mindful Moment Rooms where students can practice self-regulation and emotional wellness as an alternative to punitive discipline.

Stacey is a Certified Trauma-Competent Professional. She interweaves best practices from her diverse training in curricula including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through Thomas Jefferson University's Myrna Brind Center for Mindfulness, The Still Quiet Place with Dr. Amy Saltzman, Mindful Education with Daniel Rechtschaffen, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven and Prison Mindfulness Institute’s Path of Freedom. 

With 25 years in education, Stacey previously spent 15 years teaching grades K-8 in California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as four years as a literacy and classroom culture instructional coach for Children's Literacy Initiative. She is credentialed to teach elementary school and grades 7-12 English, 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's commitment to accessibility and justice extends throughout her work. She volunteers as a mindfulness instructor for incarcerated youth and women, serves as a prison monitor for PA Prison Society and works as a pardon coach for Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity. She wrote the Afterword "Rage from the Mindful Moment Room" for the book Lost Voices of Prisoners Serving Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania, sharing her experiences teaching mindfulness to underserved youth. She serves on the Board of Directors for both the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and CMP Radio Foundation. 

Stacey lives in Philadelphia, and is a proud mama of two young adults plus Big. She loves to create "Keep Open" boxes as an artistic expression of mindfulness, is a Level II Reiki practitioner and has trained in medicinal essential oils.