Stacy Sullivan

Strategic communications executive with 20+ years of experience shaping global narratives, advancing advocacy goals, and building public support for human rights. Proven success leading high-impact media strategies, guiding crisis communications, and partnering with development teams to strengthen donor engagement. Trusted advisor to executive leadership, with a strong track record of aligning messaging and mission across departments. Committed to advancing equity, dignity, and justice through powerful storytelling, coalition-building, and public-facing advocacy.

Native English, fluent German, basic Spanish

• The Tutoring Initiative, 2020-11, 2022-06, Launched a non-profit organization during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide free math tutoring for New York City middle school students from low-income families.
• The OpEd Project, 2008-06, Present, Serve as a mentor-editor to help edit, shape and place op-eds by promising thought leaders for the OpEd Project, a non-profit organization that works to increase the number of women and other underrepresented groups contributing to key commentary forums worldwide.
• Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, 2010-09, 2014-07, Assisted the Corrie family with media relations when they filed suit against the State of Israel for the wrongful death of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in March 2003. Generated widespread coverage in the Israeli, Palestinian and American press, including Haaretz, The New York Times and National Public Radio.

Producer, Peace v. Justice, PBS, May 2012

• An hour-long documentary about the International Criminal Court’s attempt to prosecute Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, and the clash between African and Western ideas of justice. The film premiered on Independent Television Service’s Global Voices, and has since shown all over the world, including in The Hague and Uganda.

Producer, The Brooklyn Connection, PBS, July 2005

• An hour-long documentary based on my book, Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America, that aired on PBS’s flagship documentary program, Point of View, as well as stations in 11 other countries.

Author, Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America, St. Martin’s Press, May 2004

• A 300-page narrative non-fiction book about the war in Kosovo told through a Brooklyn roofer who immigrated to the United States in 1988 and used his new home to help launch a guerrilla army in the Balkans.

• A Mother, A Son, and A Wartime Secret, Elle, March 2021
• Confessions of a Guantanamo Prosecutor, Salon, October, 2008
• The Minutes of the Guantanamo Bay Bar Association, New York Magazine, June, 2006
• Operation Desert Fraud, New York Magazine, October, 2004
• From Brooklyn to Kosovo With Love and AK-47s, New York Times Magazine, November, 1998

60 Minutes, The Daily Show, NPR, BBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Sky News, CBC, Bravo, Deutsche Welle