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Biography
Born and raised in North Dakota, Stacy Bannerman is a lifelong peace and justice activist, and as a third-grader, she wrote a Bill of Rights for her elementary school. Stacy has been deeply engaged in the non-profit and education arenas for 16 years, serving as the past Executive Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Outreach Center. As an Advisory Board member of Military Families Speak Out, she was the only peace activist to testify before a Congressional committee. Stacy has met with over 60 Senators and Congressmen, calling for an end to the war while advocating for veteran and family benefits, post-combat mental health care, and the establishment of the Department of Peace.
Stacy received her M.S., Magna Cum Laude, from Minnesota State University, and a B.A. in International Relations with research in Biotechnology. She attended the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute’s Center for Visionary Leadership, and completed Doctoral work at Wisdom University. She has served as adjunct faculty at various colleges and universities, and published a complete CDROM curriculum. A previous member of the Spokane Human Rights Commission, she created and hosted Value Added: We’re Talking About What Really Matters, a talk radio program on KSBN AM 1230. Stacy has conducted over 300 multimedia interviews, including Deborah Norville on MSNBC, FOX News, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the Lehrer News Hour, NBC Nightly News, Air America Radio, The Connection on PBS/NOW, and a feature story in the Washington Post, (“Choose Your Battle,” May 29, 2006.) She was the spokesperson in a thirty-second television ad sponsored by Texans for Truth that aired in the final weeks of Election ’04.
Stacy is profiled in the book, Compassionate Rebels (2002), and is a contributor to The Institute for Policy Study’s Foreign Policy In Focus. She has written articles for The African-American Voice, Common Dreams, Diversity Magazine, The Edge, The Hill, Kent Reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Woman, Tacoma News Tribune and many others. She is the author of When the War Came Home: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind. (Continuum Publishing, March 2006)
A powerful speaker on women’s issues, the war in Iraq, spirituality and social activism, peace, security, integrity and the intersections between America’s domestic and foreign policies, Stacy doesn’t just have a message; she is the message.
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