Unstoppable: How Stacy Harris Has Has Redefined Success While Navigating Society With Vision-Related and Developmental Disabilities

An interview with Kelly Reeves

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As a part of our “Unstoppable” series, we had the pleasure of interviewing Stacy Harris.

Stacy Harris is an internationally-known music historian, multimedia journalist, academician, pundit, pop culture analyst, media personality, actress, iconoclast, public speaker and tastemaker. A native Minnesotan and University of Maryland graduate, Stacy Harris, having completed her studies at Vanderbilt University a half-century ago, resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! It is really an honor. Our readers would love to get to know you a bit better. Can you share your “backstory” with us?

I am “DES daughter,” who was born with a myriad of vision-related and developmental disabilities.

Do you feel comfortable sharing with us the story surrounding how you became…