Stacey is the founder of The Tangerine Owl Project, an Evanston based 501c3 non-profit devoted to supporting families who have babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) and those who have suffered the devastating loss of a child. She started the organization in 2013, one year after experiencing her own loss of a premature infant daughter due to complications from severe preeclampsia. Stacey has become invested in aiding these families and advocacy efforts around community education in areas of preeclampsia awareness, maternal mental health, traumatic birth, and grief of bereaved parents. She is active with a number of organizations surrounding maternal and perinatal care outside of Tangerine Owl, including sitting on the Preeclampsia Foundation’s Patient Advisory Council and acting as a support group facilitator for the MISS Foundation. Currently, Stacey is working on certifying as a doula, and will work exclusively with women who have high-risk pregnancies and those whose babies are given fatal diagnoses in utero or short-term life expectancies. A lifelong Illinois resident, Stacey received her degree in Human Development and Family studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After spending over a decade in Champaign, her and her husband and two school-aged children moved to the North Shore in 2012.