Professional Work History
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Communications executive with 25 years at Fortune 500s (Wells Fargo, Bank of America).
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Expertise: strategic communications, corporate storytelling, data visualization, executive advisory, crisis communications.
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Corporate storyteller
Academic / Scholarship
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PhD in Rhetorics, Communications, and Information Design, Clemson University (Dissertation: Princesses, Divas, and Mother Runners, awarded distinction). Download here
- Running Rhetorics is a theoretical framework created and coined by Stacy Cacciatore to describe a new way of understanding running as a form of communication. Not just something we do, but something that speaks.Running Rhetorics is the study of the dynamic, two-way exchange between body, self, and world. It asks: What is running saying to us, and what are we saying through it?Through this framework, running is not reduced to performance metrics, aesthetics, or competition. It is understood as a rhetorical act. It persuades. It reveals. It constructs meaning. It gives voice to experiences that often have no language. Running Rhetorics, is a new approach for understanding the gendered, embodied experiences of women runners
Mile Marker Matriarch
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Founder of Mile Marker Matriarch, a podcast and community centering women’s embodied experiences in running.
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Running coach (RRCA), Certified Personal Trainer (NASM CPT), and Certified Nutrition Coach (NASM CNC).
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Teach women to run not just for pace, but for purpose, healing, and power.
Writing & Publications
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Books: Candy Around the World, Guilt-Free Cupcakes, Lunch, by me!, A Pet for Emberly and Culinary Duct Tape: Greek Yogurt.
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Corporate & Media Publications: Disney Parks Blog, planDisney panel, Working Mother, Orbitz, Charlotte Parent, My Carolina Town, The Charlotte Observer,
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Academic Publications: Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Gender, Place & Culture, The Contemporary Drug Problems Journal. Review my full list of publications. here
- Manager Editor for WAC Journal, a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Contributing Editor for QU-Queens University Literary Magazine.