Stacey Plaskett
| Stacey Plaskett | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands's at-large district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 Delegate |
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| Preceded by | Donna Christian-Christensen |
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| Born |
May 13, 1964 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jonathan Buckney-Small |
| Alma mater |
Georgetown University (BS) American University (JD) |
| Website |
House website Official Twitter |
Stacey Plaskett (born May 13, 1964) is an American politician who is currently the delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands's at-large congressional district.
Plaskett is an African-Caribbean attorney, commentator and politician. She has practiced law in New York City, Washington DC, and the US Virgin Islands. She is known for her understanding of Caribbean economic development and public-private partnerships for growing the economy of developing areas. She is an active community advocate in the Virgin Islands.
Plaskett was born on May 13, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are both from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and moved to New York in the 1950s during the large migration of Virgin Islanders seeking economic opportunity. Plaskett grew up in the Bushwick New York housing projects. Her father was a New York City police officer and her mother a clerk in the court system. Plaskett lived in the John F Kennedy housing community on St. Croix during her early childhood as her family regularly returned to the Virgin Islands during her childhood. Her parents' home in New York was often home for students and other recent immigrants moving to the mainland from the Virgin Islands. Plaskett attended Brooklyn Friends (a Quaker School) and Grace Lutheran for elementary school. She was recruited by A Better Chance, Inc. a non-profit organization recruiting minority students to selective secondary schools. Plaskett was a student at the boarding school, Choate Rosemary Hall, where she was a varsity athlete and served as class president for several years.
Plaskett spent a term abroad during this time in France. She often states that Choate awakened her commitment to public service and a deep sense of responsibility to others through the biblical verse "to whom much is given; much is required". She was one of the few black students while she attended the school and felt an enormous responsibility to speak out for and be a credit to her race while in high school. She graduated with a degree in History and Diplomacy from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1988 where she was accepted under the early decision program.
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