Lacey Clark

Lacey C. Clark!, deemed “The Hip-Hop Oprah Winfrey”, is the Lead Life Coach and Founder
of Sisters’ SanctuaryTM, an onsite customized personal empowerment program that inspires
female youth within the Hip-Hop generation (13-21 yrs) and beyond, to speak, think and care for
themselves.

A graduate of New York University, Lacey holds a BFA in film and television. In addition, she
is an NYU Founder’s Scholar and recipient of the William H. Cosby Future Filmmakers Award.
While at NYU, she founded the Black Family Reunion organization, a community service
oriented club with the purpose of giving back to inner-city communities. Lacey has over 15
years of experience in empowering youth and adults, such as substitute teaching an after-school
drama program in Brooklyn, NY and being a camp counselor at R.W. Brown Community Center
in North Philadelphia.

Lacey’s professional career includes working in the development department of Spike Lee’s
production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, and teaching abroad in Ghana, West Africa at the
National Film and Television Institute. She was invited to present Sisters’ SanctuaryTM at the
World Federation of Mental Health Biennial Conference in Melbourne, Australia in February
2003.

Sisters' SanctuaryTM is partnered with Jill Scott's Blues Babe Foundation and has been featured
in Rolling Out, BET, The Philadelphia Tribune, The Daily News, The Philadelphia Weekly, and
Shades of Opinion, Channel 35 WYBE Philadelphia. Her hobbies include people watching, spa
hopping, and dancing to inspirational house music.

She is currently promoting her book Celebrate HER Now!: An Interactive Guide to Loving
Ourselves and Embracing Female Youth of the Hip-Hop Generation. She teaches at the Pan
African Studies Communities Education Program (PASCEP) at Temple University.