June 28, 2021
BBW MEMBER INTERVIEW: Stacy Malone, Executive Director, Victim Rights Law Center
What is your name?
Stacy Malone
What is your occupation?
Executive Director
What is your business name?
How long have you been a Boston Business Women’s Member?
Less than a year
What is your instagram handle?
What is your linked in URL?
Were you born and raised in Boston? If not, what brought you here?
Yes.
Tell us more about your job or company and what led you to your career?
My organization is the first nonprofit law center in the country solely focused on the legal needs of sexual assault survivors. Our legal services are free. The VRLC was founded in Boston and now we have 4 offices in Massachusetts, 1 in Portland, Oregon and 3 national training programs. I am a sexual assault survivors, lawyer and activist. Using my legal skills to help survivors has been a dream come true!
What would your clients say about you and your company?
Our attorneys are compassionate and fierce.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
You are good enough.
What is your favorite book?
Beloved by Toni Morrison
What is your secret weapon? An app, a tool, a organization method, anything?! (Can be a personal or professional life tool)
Miro is becoming my secret weapon. As I learn to use it I'm seeing it's a great way to be innovative with teams.
What is your most recent WIN? How are you slaying it in your career or business?
I had an essay published in the book ``What would happen if we believed women?`` with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and so many other sheroes!
What advice would you give to your younger self?
Don't stop being scrappy.
How do you enjoy your free time?
Hiking with my pup and hubby and loving up my stepdaughters' babies.
What is something that not many people know about you?
I'm kind of an open book. Being a sexual assault survivor so many people have connected with me throughout the years and there is a really desire to have an authentic connection so I try to share as much of myself as I can while also protecting my own hear.
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