Stacey (also known online as Justice Fergie) is a digital brand strategist, sponsorships expert, veteran blogger, event producer, social media personality, public speaker, and Chief Curator of the Be Blogalicious community and conferences celebrating diversity among women in social media.  She also coaches women influencers in building their empires through her exclusive, high-touch Rockstar Influencer Program.

Since 2009, Stacey has grown the Blogalicious community to a movement of over 10,000 multicultural women influencers. The cornerstone of the Blogalicious brand is its annual Blogalicious Weekend conference; a 3-day educational and experiential event featuring high-profile speakers and major consumer brands. She is responsible for a 200+% growth increase in both conference attendance and sponsorship revenues in the last 8 years.

Through The b-Link Marketing Network by Blogalicious, Stacey ideates and activates influencer outreach and blog and social media-based marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 brands and nationally recognized organizations. Campaign clients include Unilever, McDonald’s, Disney, The U.S. Department of State, Proctor and Gamble, and more.

Stacey regularly consults with entrepreneurs, startups and established brands on digital and brand strategy, as well as influencer outreach and social media disclosure guidelines. She also is an accomplished public speaker, presenting at conferences and events nationally – such as SXSW, the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, the Pennsylvania Women’s Conference, and BlogHer.

Stacey has been featured in various media, including NPR, Fox, Southern Living Magazine, The Washington Post, EBONY, Mashable, Sirius-XM Radio, Uptown Magazine, Black Enterprise, JET Magazine, Rolling Out, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and all around the Web.  She has been named as a Best Brand of the Year by Stiletto Media, a Top 10 Black Innovator by MVMT50 at SXSW, is a SaluteHER Mocha Maven Award recipient, a MogulAward recipient, and was spotlighted as a successful woman-run technology venture in EBONY magazine.

She is a wife, and mother of 3 and resides in the DC Metro Area, and was an attorney in the US Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Advertising Practices for 7 years, where she specialized in investigating unfair acts and practices relating to social media disclosures, spyware and adware, and peer-to-peer file sharing, among other hi-tech goods and services issues. Prior to her time in the federal government, she was a corporate attorney in private practice.

Stacey received her B.S. in Telecommunications, with a specialization in Radio and Television Production from the University of Florida, and her J.D. from the Howard University School of Law.