Rev. Stacey has been engaged in matters of the spirit, social justice, and ecology for many years. She has engaged in many environmental justice issues over the last 20 years. In addition to organizing work, she has served in finance roles for non-profits before ministry.

Her spiritual path has led to her living at meditation centers and an abbey, which helped a deepening of her appreciation of seeing the interconnectedness in everything. This search has led to her living near Yosemite National Park, on the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, the Catskill Mountains of New York state, New York City, and New Orleans, among other travels.

Rev. Stacey is from Seattle, where she grew up appreciating the beauty of orca whales, wild salmon, old-growth cedar trees, and bald eagles.

Stacey is an ordained minister within the Unitarian Universalist denomination, receiving her M.Div. at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. She served as a Chaplain Resident at University Medical Center in New Orleans and served as Minister at Community Church UU in New Orleans, where she was ordained. She current serves as Contract Minister at UU Society of Oneonta (UUSO) You might see Rev. Stacey regularly walking the downtown streets of Catskill Mountains towns in NY State with her bestfriend and perpetual side-kick, a rescue dog named Copper, who is a mix of hound dog and German-Shorthaired-Pointer.

Rev. Stacey Mitchell