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Stacey D. Stewart — The Kind 50

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driving change

A woman in a black MADD Sports polo stands next to a man in a green football shirt and cap in a school office.
A woman in white shakes hands with a woman in a dark team jacket as people look on in a gym.
A woman in a red hoodie stands in front of a Michigan State Athletics backdrop next to the Sparty mascot.

Stacey D. Stewart has led some of the country’s biggest nonprofits, including Fannie Mae Foundation, United Way, and March of Dimes. Each one was always more than a job.

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MY CONNECTION to THE MISSION IS DEEPLY PERSONAL

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Five people in formal wear pose around a seated man in a grey suit in front of a backdrop of black-and-white portraits.
Stacey Stewart, in a navy blazer and a cream blouse, sits smiling at a conference-room table.

In 2023, Stewart became CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, an organization already responsible for cutting impaired driving deaths in half since its founding, and pushed it further.

new tech could save 10,000 lives a year

A studio portrait of Stacey Stewart in a black turtleneck, her chin resting on her hand.

She’s championed the HALT Act, a federal law requiring new vehicles to detect driver impairment and stop the car before it can be driven drunk.

A woman in a black MADD Sports polo stands with five people in green football camp shirts outside a school.
Rows of photo placards and string lights on the grass in front of the U.S. Capitol at dusk.

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