Founder

Stacey is particularly passionate about sharing mindfulness skills with those who have the least amount of access. For the last five years, she has been a mindfulness specialist in schools: as an interventionist in special education and on a project called ESEL, designed to empower students and help schools ameliorate punitive practices. Her work is featured in the documentary film “Divided Attention: When the Children Who Need the Most Receive the Least”. In addition to offering various services through BIG Mindfulness & Meditation, Stacey facilitates professional development in trauma awareness, resiliency and conflict transformation.

A certified professional mindfulness teacher (CMT-P) with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Stacey interweaves diverse mindfulness curriculums. She is a certified “Trauma-Competent Professional” through Lakeside Global Institute. Previously, Stacey spent 14 years teaching grades K-8 in CA, NJ and PA, and four years as an instructional coach and facilitator for Children’s Literacy Initiative.  She holds a Master’s degree in Social Foundations of Education from California State University - Los Angeles, and a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Stacey volunteers mindfulness instruction with youth offenders in adult prison, is a volunteer Prison Monitor for PA Prison Society and a volunteer Pardon Coach for Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity.  She sits on the Board of Directors at CMP Radio Foundation and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, is a core member of Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools and is the Co-Coordinator of the Mindfulness and Social Change Network. She loves creating art, walking errands, bacon, her daughter’s original music and offering people Reiki and aromatherapy consultation.