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Biography
Ms. Bannerman is the author of WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind (Continuum Publishing, 2006) and the founder and director of Sanctuary Weekends™ for Women Veterans. Born and raised in North Dakota, Ms. Bannerman has been deeply engaged in the non-profit and education arenas for 19 years as an advocate, editor, executive, instructor, and consultant. She has created a variety of flagship programs for women while serving as the founding Executive Director of Sanctuary One, the Executive Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Outreach Center, and the Program & Marketing Director at Genesis II for Women, an alternative-to-sentencing agency. She has also held adjunct faculty positions at several colleges and universities.
Stacy was a charter Board member of Military Families Speak Out, the first and largest organization of military families to actively protest a war that their loved ones are fighting. When her husband was mobilized with the Army National Guard in 2003, Stacy began advocating for the troops and their families, and has emerged as a national leader on the human costs of the war in Iraq. Stacy has testified before several Congressional committees, including the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs (2006), a House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee (2008), and the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel (2009). In her efforts to improve support and services for military families during all phases of combat deployments, and advocate for comprehensive post-combat care for veterans, she has met with over 60 Senators and Congressmen. Ms. Bannerman successfully spearheaded state and national legislative campaigns for military family leave, resulting in passage of Oregon H.B. 2744, and the introduction of the federal Military Family Leave Act of 2009. Stacy received the Patriotic Employer Award and the Above & Beyond Award from the Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve in 2009.
A compelling speaker with a powerful message, Stacy has conducted nearly 500 multimedia interviews, including Hardball with Chris Matthews, BBC, Deborah Norville on MSNBC, the Lehrer News Hour, NBC Nightly News, The Connection on PBS/NOW, appeared in The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom, Army Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, a feature story in the Washington Post, and was the spokesperson in a thirty-second television ad sponsored by Texans for Truth that aired on FOX News in the final weeks of Election ’04. 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 received her M.S., Magna Cum Laude, from Minnesota State University, and a B.A. in International Relations. She attended the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute’s Center for Visionary Leadership, and the Doctoral program at Wisdom University. 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 dozens of articles for Common Dreams, Diversity Magazine, Kent Reporter, Medford Mail Tribune, The Progressive, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Woman, Tacoma News Tribune, Truthout, The Women's Media Center and many others.
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