An award-winning social entrepreneur, educator, and researcher, Stacey brings over 20 years of experience working with artisans globally. She spent 5 years as a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business in the Social Responsibility & Sustainability Division.

In 2003 Stacey founded and led Global Girlfriend, a fair-trade enterprise that partnered with over 250 women-led artisan enterprises in forty countries. She built a multi-million-dollar market for handcrafted apparel and accessories through e-commerce and wholesale partnerships with premier retailers including Whole Foods Market, Target, and West Elm as well as 1,500 boutique retailers nationwide. In 2017 she co-founded Trade+Impact Association, a global non-profit trade association advancing women-led social enterprises.

Stacey is the author of Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made it Her Mission to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide, co-author of a chapter in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability, and her most recent research study Artisan Social Enterprises in Zambia: Women Leveraging Purpose to Scale Impact, was published in the Social Enterprise Journal.

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