About Me

Hi! I’m Stacia.

I am from Toronto, born and raised. But I have also lived in Calgary, a small fishing village in New Brunswick, the Eastern Townships of Quebec, the capital of Honduras, a Guatemalan pueblo and a huge city in southern India. I have an incurable case of wanderlust and my extensive travels have taken me across the world, from Costa Rica to Ethiopia to Tibet.

When I was a teenager, my mother taught career planning for women at Humber College. Throughout those years, I benefited from learning the same skills and wisdom she imparted to her students, and I would definitely say it was she who taught me the importance of living an introspective life.

Those lessons led me to the discovery of Sociology at university, and honestly, I’ve never looked back. As I mentioned in the FAQ section, learning about individuals in relation to the larger world has given me such profound perspective on the dire necessity for things like context, cultural relativity and sensitivity and acceptance of difference. It ignited my love of wonder and set me off to trot the globe. Most importantly, it led me to adopt what has turned out to be one of the fundamental tenets of my life: if you have the ability to help make things better for others, then you have the singular responsibility to do so. Advocacy, representation, bearing witness, affecting change.

However you do it, it must be done.

Over the years, one of my many contributions to this cause has been a willingness to share an ability I have developed to look at the messy, complex minutiae of life, and somehow rearrange it. Offer perspective and insight and clarity. Find order in the chaos. Because I’m a person who lives in the details, I get profound satisfaction out of doing this kind of emotional work that so many find onerous or daunting. For me it’s like fitting the pieces of a complicated puzzle together that I can already see completed in my head. On top of which, helping people is my absolute jam. And, as is always the way, by helping others, I am often also helping myself. In the end, we all get lifted up together. And that is success by any measure.

For now, I live just outside of Ottawa with my husband of 17 years and our magnificent kid, two Bahamian Potcake rescues, and an indifferent cat named Miss Jones.