Stacey joined Right To Play in 2009 working first as operations manager before transitioning to the advocacy team in early 2011. Prior to joining Right To Play Stacey worked as a consultant for the US Secretary of Education, Roderick Paige’s, education policy firm in New York, where she specialised in early childhood development and higher education for clients in the US, Eastern Europe, East Africa and Latin America.
Stacey also has financial and research experience gained from working for an investment management fund and a media consulting firm. She volunteered for a number of years with the International Message & Tracing Services Department at The British Red Cross, which provides care for refugees and helps reunite families separated by conflict or natural disasters.
Stacey has an MA Hons. in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MSc in Public Policy and Global Governance from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her current areas of interest include youth led development, child rights and gender.
Get To Know Me
Why Right To Play?
I was keen to extend the knowledge I had gained from the private sector into the field of international development. It has been wonderful to see the benefits that Right To Play programmes have for the children who take part in them and in the communities where we work. Sport for Development as a field has made a lot of progress in the last decade and it is great to work for an organisation that is at the forefront of making that happen.
Where do you get inspiration from?
Travelling, musicals, and my friends.
Best piece of advice you've ever been given?
Never live inside the box as there will always be an exciting triangle to discover down the road.
Best sporting moment?
Finishing the Right To Play Brussels to London bike ride in Greenwich Park after having cycled 300 miles in 3 days.
If you had an open plane ticket, where would you go?
Zanzibar, with a stop off in New York.