Recipient of several awards including one of Canada’s Top 100 Powerful Women by Women’s Executive Network and Top 10 Women of Worth by L’Oreal Canada, Stachen has over 20 years of experience in the field of community and program development internationally and in Canada (Ottawa, Greater Toronto Region including Peel Region). She is the Founder of BrAIDS for AIDS, a not-for-profit organization to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the African, Caribbean and Black Communities in Canada and internationally through a culturally relevant practice of hair braiding. Additionally, She is the current Executive Director of Weston Frontlines Centre, a youth charity in one of the poorest ridings in Toronto that she has grown from the verge of closing to a million-dollar organization.
She is a Professor at Sheridan College as well as CEO/Founder of a consultancy firm called Lett’s Consult Community that specializes in grant writing, fundraising, business development and strategy particularly for nonprofits and small businesses and with government bodies on developing community development and partnership plans. She holds a BSc, BSW and an MBA.