Stacey Remick wins Barbara Gomperts Staff Excellence Award

Stacey Remick wins Barbara Gomperts Staff Excellence Award

Stacey Remick is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the English Department.

Stacey transferred to Mason from University of Missouri to complete her B.A. in English from George Mason University in 1988. After several years of travel overseas, two summers traveling the U.S. and working as a sub-contractor for several regional companies she returned to Mason as an employee in October 1996. During her tenure, she served as Chair, Mason Military Outreach (2006-2008); Staff Liaison, Security Facilitation Action Work Group (2006-2007); member, Mason Awards Committee (2000-2006), Human Resources Workplace Coach (2010-2014) and served on the  Faculty and Staff Experience Committee (formerly Quality of Work Life Task Force) from 2000-2020. She co-founded the Staff Senate in 1998 and served for four years as Staff Senate chair from 2002-2006 was re-elected in 2011 and served again from June 2014 to July 2018 and was re-elected to serve another two-year term in 2021 and retired from the Senate in 2023. She has served on over 30 faculty, staff and administration search committees. She served as a Virginia Governmental Employees Association board member from September 2012 - August 2019.  

She is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist (Fairfax Chapter) since 2011, nature photographer, and has served as a Nature Conservancy preserve steward for both Voorhees and Fraser Preserves in Virginia, surveyor for the Virginia Bird Breeding Atlas 2. She served as chair of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia Creation Care Committee from 2021-2023, a ministry dedicated to helping the Diocese bring its parishes and institutions to carbon neutrality by 2030.  She continues to monitor Eastern Bluebird nest box trails statewide, conduct bird surveys as part of the Sanctuary meditation trail at St. Peter's in the Woods Episcopal Church in Fairfax Station Virginia (an Northern Virginia Bird Alliance sanctuary).  She just completed a year-long photography project on behalf of the Nature Conservancy and partnering land conservancies to document the habitat restoration projects completed over 30 years in Virginia.  She coordinated the the St. Peter's in the Woods Episcopal Church Sanctuary Forest induction into the national Old-Growth Forest Network of community forests and continues to serve as meditation trail steward as well as retreat facilitator.  

Barbara Gomperts (left); Stacey Remick (right)
Barbara Gomperts (left); Stacey Remick (right)

This award recognizes a member of the English department staff for exceptional performance in their position while honoring the dedication and attention Barb has put into the department.

Each year a committee will be tasked with soliciting nominations and making decisions, taking particular care to evaluate nominees according to how they fulfill their job duties, adapt to the changing needs of the department, and contribute to the department’s ongoing success. The committee is encouraged to consider the achievements of nominees over many years and to take into account whether and when nominees have been previously recognized with this award. 

Much of the success of the English department depends on the excellence of our staff. We seek to provide greater recognition of those who contribute so much to the department.