He has been an active member of the community, volunteering for various civic efforts including the City of Bend’s Sewer Infrastructure Advisory Group, the Galveston Avenue Improvement Task Force, the Urban Growth Boundary Technical Advisory Committee, and the ADU Technical Advisory Committee as well as OSU-Cascades Campus Visioning and the Campus Expansion Advisory Committee (CEAC). He is also the chair of Building a Better Bend, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing experts to Bend to help raise the level of discourse about development and community building in Bend. Stacey and his wife Rachel Stemach have practiced architecture for 17 years (13 in Bend and Central Oregon) and run their own firm, Stemach Design & Architecture.