Stacey Pearson is an AMBER Alert subject matter expert and former public safety professional. She has extensive experience investigating complex cases of missing, abducted, and exploited children, as well as multi-jurisdictional clergy abuse and crimes against children cases. Stacey offers technical advice to authors, novelists, and television and film producers writing on such topics.

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Stacey earned her doctorate in law and policy from Northeastern University and now lends her practical and policy expertise to others. To further her personal mission of empowering child safety advocates, she founded The Pelican Project, which supports national child protection programming with a particular focus on missing, abducted, exploited, homeless, and emergency-fostered young people in Louisiana.