Lacey Stein
Membership Coordinator
Lacey has spent the whole of her career working toward equity and justice for multiple populations. She began working in Colorado’s non-profit sector in 2004 and has served in numerous roles for organizations such as Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver, Think Like a Genius Foundation, Empowering Education, Community Care Collective, and the Colorado Mental Wellness Network. Lacey also spent a decade developing curriculum for and teaching Communication Studies courses at universities across the country and in Singapore, with her teaching and research emphases on systems of power/oppression and community-based research methods. She believes wholeheartedly that community members themselves have the richest understandings of systemic problems they experience and that community members should be the decision-makers when producing and implementing solutions to such problems.
Though Lacey gets fired up about any community experiencing marginalization, she feels most strongly about advocating for equity with people who have visible and/or hidden disabilities, particularly people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and youth. Moreover, she is interested in solutions to systemic inequities that are culturally informed and nuanced in ways that affirm our intersectional lived experiences. Lacey is honored to work at CCDC because the staff are so utterly devoted to the organization’s mission, and they are committed to and adept at pivoting to meet the needs of the disability community as those needs evolve.
Finally, Lacey takes her work quite seriously, but intentionally tries not to take herself too seriously; she values humor, whether corny and ridiculous or dark and sarcastic. She prioritizes time with her beloved husband and kiddo, enjoys singing loudly despite a lack of discernible talent, and daydreams about stopping time so that she can read every book ever written.