Obsessed with human behaviour and how we might better understand the brain and it’s endless quirks and bits of electrochemical magic, Stacey has been seeking to arrive at this understanding for over 25 years, through researching, strategizing, and designing with humans of all sorts, with all kinds of different challenges and needs. As a UX design manager at IBM, she operates at the intersection of design, education, and technology, and humans, AIs and machines. However, her career has included work as seemingly disparate as: managing an independent record label and talent booking agency; designing couture latex clothing and brick and mortar retail shopping experiences; and creating educational projects for adult learners of the MS Office software suite. Stacey cares deeply about psychological safety - her own and that of others and speaks passionately about this and inclusive and ethical AI-driven design whenever she gets the opportunity

Stacey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Bennington College, Vermont; a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from the University of California at Irvine, California; and is a 2021 candidate for a Master of Business Administration from Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington, D.C.