User:Stacynoland

Stacy Noland (born 1968)is a social entrepreneur and environmental advocate in Seattle, Washington working to end environmental, social and economic injustice by empowering people to protect the planet and pursue social and economic prosperity. Noland is the founder and CEO of the Moontown Foundation, a non profit organization that works to remove existing barriers and prepare low-income, historically disadvantaged teens and young adults for family wage careers in the clean and renewable energy industry sectors.

Noland has over 20-years of progressive, strategic leadership, environmental stewardship, and social & economic development experience in the Greater Puget Sound Region; driving initiatives designed to raise the self-esteem of disadvantaged communities, protect natural resources, and promote social and economic equity.

Noland has served on the worked for a number of nonprofit environmental organizations to include the Washington Public Interest Research Group, Student Conservation Association (SCA), and the Environmental Careers Organization. He currently serves as adjunct lecturer on Green Public Policy at Shoreline Community College.

He has served on the boards for Biodiversity Northwest, Gifford Pinchot Task Force, Technology Access Foundation, Seattle Urban League Young Professionals. He is a member of Tabor 100, a Pacific Northwest Association of African-American businesspeople and entrepreneurs committed to facilitating the development of economic power, and educational excellence in combination with a passion for social equity.

Noland has won numerous awards for his commitment to youth and the environment to include the City of Seattle Volunteer Supervision & Outdoor Leadership Award, the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, Grove Guardian Award, and holds a Key to the City of Stillwater, MN. Noland is a native of Huntsville, Alabama. He received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Montevallo in 1990 and attended the University of Washington for his post baccalaureate studies in 1992.