Stacy graduated from Ashland University with a Bachelor’s in Social Work and from Regis University with a Master’s in Nonprofit Management. She started her career as a licensed social worker in the child welfare field specifically working in foster care and adoption. She then worked as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Program Officer at Providence House, a Crisis Nursery in Cleveland that works with families actively living in crisis situations placing their children at higher risk for abuse and neglect. She moved back to Ashland from Cleveland in 2016 and became the Executive Director of United Way of Ashland County in January 2017.