Lacey Connelly

Lacey is a community organizer who began officially working on campaigns as an intern during the 2004 IL Senate primary, where her boss lost to a little known community organizer and State Senator named Barack Obama. Since then, she has been an Organizer, Compliance Manager, Campaign Manager, Training Director, and Caucus Director for the WV House Democratic Legislative Committee. She left the Caucus in 2021 to start working with Marshall Ganz on the Practicing Democracy Project at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership, where she led teaching teams and workshops in Organizing and Public Narrative.

Lacey has lived in big cities across the country, but her heart lies in the small towns of Appalachia. She loves working with organizers whose passion is making change at the local level, especially in rural places that are under-resourced and underestimated, like her home state of West Virginia.

When she's not teaching, training, or coaching community organizers, you might find Lacey taking a yoga class, reading with a cat or dog on her lap, listening to K-pop, or camping with friends.