Dr Stacey is:

• an academic and scientist

• a professional voice actor

• a professionally trained vegan educator

• a DIY geek, avid outdoorswoman, animal lover

Voice:

I began studying voice acting under the tutelage of the excellent Mr Terry McGovern (Star Wars, DuckTales), then enrolled in both of the voice acting schools in my area: VoiceTrax SF, and Voice One San Francisco, training which has been complemented with private lessons with my heroes Mr Paul Thompson (baritone SF Opera), Ms Julia Norton (singing and voice coach), and Mr Jim Edgar (audio engineer). I am lucky to have studied with some of the brightest luminaries in voice work in Hollywood and beyond. I have performed on stage in musical, Shakespearean, mainstream modern, and independent/experimental theatre.

Vegan:

My vegan training is far more circuitous. First, I learned from some seminal cookbooks and their excellent, creative authors. Madhur Jaffrey wrote the book that taught me how to cook a tasty vegetarian menu when I was 18 yrs old, World of the East Vegetarian Cooking. Then came Chef Eric Tucker of the MIllennium Restaurant in the Bay Area, whose two cookbooks, The Millennium Cookbook and The Artful Vegan, taught me to go from vegetarian to vegan. Then came the glorious Miyoko Schinner, the Queen of Vegan Cheese, who taught me everything else I needed to know about not just cooking but being a good kind decent vegan human walking on the planet.

After cooking classes with both Chef Tucker and Miyoko Schinner, I studied with the inimitable Victoria Moran at the Main Street Vegan Academy to learn about engaging others in their own vegan journeys, and I continue my ongoing education by taking coures such as at Rouxbe Plant-Based Culinary School.

Academics:

My academic training comes almost entirely from the University of California: Santa Cruz for undergrad, Davis for the masters and doctorate, Berkeley as a first teaching post, and San Francisco as my career home. Yup, I’m a UC gal through and through.

After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Tobacco Control at UCSF, I took my first tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Nottingham (UK), where I was an inaugural member of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (now UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies), before returning to my home university of UC San Francisco.

I specialize in gender stereotyping and identity, and how these are exploited by inherently harmful industries such as Big Tobacco. I also study the relation between animal agriculture and social and ecological problems such as outgroup violence and global climate change, with an eye toward effective policy solutions at the local, national, and international levels.

I hold the following credentials:

• Post-doctoral fellowship in Tobacco Control at UCSF; Institute for Health Policy Studies

• PhD from UC Davis

• MVLCE (Master Vegan Life Coach and Educator) from Main Street Vegan Academy

and my cat thinks I’m pretty cool too…

None of this would be complete without my pointing out that Halloween is the best day of the year, hands down… and ain’t making your own costumes from scratch FUN???