Stacey Kabat

Stacey Kabat (born ) She was raised in a violent home, having a mother and grandmother who were beaten by their husbands. She graduated from Bates College in 1985. She got her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Simmons College in 2001.

Career Kabat had spent time working with refugees in Gaza for Amnesty International. Part of this work involved putting together a legal team who would work for women who needed legal support. This group lobbied the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for commutations of their sentences in 1993 and were mostly successful. After winning the Academy Award, Kabat traveled the country speaking and showing the film for a few years. She co-produced two other films with Lazarus and Wunderlich: Strong at the Broken Places: Turning Trauma to Recovery (1998) and Women's Rights, Human Rights (1999).

In 2001 she became a maternal/child health nurse and a lactation consultant at Mass General Hospital. BWFB! named one of America's Best Run Charities by Financial World (1993)