About Stacey

Stacey enjoying fabulous Indian food in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
February 2014

Stacey is a freelance writer. Her work covers diverse aspects of the human experience, from travel and adventure activities to social justice issues. Her writing has appeared in Mind+Body, Verge Magazine, Life After Study Abroad, Misadventures Magazine, STIR Journal and Narratively. 

She has also published in numerous scholarly journals, contributed blog posts to Society for Medical Anthropology's Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group blog and Somatosphere and presented and organized panels at professional meetings.

This blog, An Anthropology of the Familiar, represents Stacey's anthropological reflection upon her own life and experiences -- some of them exceptional, many of them mundane -- and is an exercise in thinking through the challenges and happenings of the every day in the hopes of sharing anthropological thinking and its real-life relevance and application with a broad audience outside of academia.

In addition to writing, Stacey is the VP of Operations for CANTER Colorado, an avid horse-rider and rock climber, food and travel junkie, fledgling yoga teacher, tattoo collector, and animal adoption advocate.

You will find her portfolio at staceymckennawrites.com and can check out her climbing blog at weclimbtheworld.blogspot.com.