Staci Haines has been working at the intersection of personal and social transformation for over thirty years through somatics, trauma healing, embodied leadership, and transformative justice. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice and Healing Sex: A Mind–Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma. An innovator in the field of somatics, she focuses on how it can expand transformative capacity within social and climate justice movements and help heal the effects of trauma and oppression.
Staci runs both online and in-person programs and teacher trainings, and she partners with social and climate justice organizations. She co-founded Generative Somatics, a multiracial organization dedicated to building social justice capacity, and she serves as a senior teacher at the Strozzi Institute, where she plays a central role in shaping its methodology. In 1999, she founded generationFIVE, a transformative justice nonprofit committed to ending child sexual abuse within five generations.