Staci Haines

Staci Haines is the author of "The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice." She has been experimenting at the intersections of personal and social transformation for the last 30 years, through the work of somatics, trauma healing, embodied leadership, and transformative justice.

She is an international leader in the field of Somatics, and a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute. Staci is the co-founder and prior executive director of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice movements. Staci also founded generationFIVE, a non-profit whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations, using transformative justice approaches.

Lastly, Staci is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007), which has been translated into German, Japanese and Spanish.