Lacy MacAuley
Lacy MacAuley is a media activist with a passion for amplifying voices of those working for a better world. With a BA in International Relations specializing in World Development Studies, she is committed to promoting local, living economies that place people, planet, and principle before profit. Lacy's creative passion was ignited while working as news editor for her college newspaper and stoked by helping found the DC Resistance Media Collective in 2005. Keeping the flame burning, Lacy joined the Institute for Policy Studies in 2011.
Lacy came to IPS after doing communications for a variety of progressive organizations through the progressive PR firm Massey Media LLC and as a single contractor. She has done media relations work with groups such as Project Vote and ACORN, United for Peace and Justice, Jubilee USA, Mountain Justice Summer, the IMF Resistance Network, and the Solidarity Center (international affiliate of the AFL-CIO). Locally, she has facilitated communications for organizations such as the DC Humanities Council and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, as well as for projects such as Tent City DC. Lacy was chosen as "Reporter/Activist of the Year 2010" by Press Action for her work at the Toronto G20 Summit. She serves on the board of the Washington Peace Center.
Recent Work
Blog
Election Night Party with IPS
November 6 - Join us on livestream for a night of what you won't hear in the mainstream media.
Media Advisory
Chilean Student Movement and City Life Vida Urbana, group fighting foreclosures, evictions, are recipients of prestigious Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award by Institute for Policy Studies
October 11 - Washington DC awards ceremony will feature Danny Glover, Camila Vallejo. Event will include music, poetry, food, open bar.
Blog
Charles Taylor Found Guilty of War Crimes -- Emira Woods Available for Comment
April 26 - Emira Woods, an Institute for Policy Studies expert originally from Liberia, comments on Taylor's conviction.