Creating Jobs to Restore the American Middle Class

At a time when the California has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation, working and middle class families are seeing the American Dream fade away. Stacey is fighting to create economic opportunity for the millions of hard-working Californians who are being squeezed out in these tough times.

Small businesses create 85% of the jobs in America – and for the last 17 years, Stacey has been involved with creating dozens of small businesses, all of which have generated jobs in northern California.

In Congress, Stacey will fight for policies that increase investment in American small business, such as making big banks pay back their bailout funds faster and reinvesting more of the proceeds into small business loans. Read More

Investing in Education: It’s Worth Fighting For

Of all the candidates in this race, Stacey Lawson knows best that educational opportunity is worth fighting for in Congress. It is what allowed her – the daughter of a truck driver, raised in a trailer in a rural, blue collar town  – to become a chemical engineer, go on to Harvard Business School, start successful small businesses and create hundreds of jobs.

That’s why Stacey has worked so hard to help deliver the promise of education to others. Stacey co-founded and teaches at the University of California’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at Berkeley. The center helps equip engineers and scientists with the skills to lead, innovate and commercialize technology and cleantech projects including wind, solar, electric vehicle, green home services and other job-creating innovations. Read More

Alternative Energy, Sustainability & The Environment

Transitioning from dependence on fossil fuels to more sustainable, low-impact energy sources is both an environmental imperative and an urgent economic necessity.

As a technology entrepreneur and leader in clean energy innovation, Stacey has supported initiatives in areas from solar energy equipment to green retrofitting services to electric vehicles.  She will work tirelessly to support renewable energy policies which curb the effects of global climate change and protect our environment for future generations. Read More

Ensuring A Strong Safety Net For Working Families

Building strong communities and a thriving middle class in our country are essential to protecting our democracy and the American Dream.

As a respected leader in socially conscious community development, Stacey has developed programs which have brought food, shelter, education and medical services to underserved communities – here in the Bay Area and globally.  Her work has enabled hundreds of families to pull themselves out of poverty and into safe housing and quality jobs. Read More