"Stacey brings her heart when advocating for the transgender community."

 

Stacey Rice is a transgender woman who found her way from the North Carolina mountains to Portland, Oregon with her Southern accent still intact. She is the former Executive Co-Director of Q Center, which at that time, was the largest LGBTQ+ community center in the Pacific NW. She was also recognized by the Oregon Queer History Collective as a Queer Hero for her work at Q Center.    

Stacey advocates for the transgender community in Portland and beyond by using her gifts of writing, storytelling and impactful transgender competency trainings. As a 2023 Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellowship recipient, Stacey brought visibility to the experiences of older LGBTQ+ adults by writing about and sharing stories of her journey and others from this underrepresented community. 

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She is also one of the stars of the documentary, “Who’s On Top? LGBTQs Summit Mt. Hood” which profiles four LGBTQ+ community members sharing stories of overcoming the mountains they have encountered literally and physically on their journeys.

 

Stacey’s heart and soul is filled when she is out hiking among the trees and wild places of Oregon. She likes nothing better than sitting under a big Ponderosa Pine tree in the high desert of Oregon and Crater Lake is her most favorite place in the whole wide world. She feels incredibly blessed to call Portland and the Pacific Northwest home.