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Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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Right Turn: Combatting disinformation and misinformation

Author: Stacey Johnson, 07/10/20

He’s been coming into your home for years, via the television airwaves, so that familiarity probably makes you feel like you know him. Well, I do. I met Ali Velshi before he became The Ali Velshi. We are both from Toronto and met on a special council of high school student government representatives. Then our […]

Right Turn: Revisiting stem cell tourism

Author: Stacey Johnson, 06/19/20

Are you the type of traveller who finds a destination you love and you keep returning to it every chance you get? That’s not me. I can appreciate that with a limited number of vacation days and a limited budget, there is something to be said for sticking with the tried and true. I fall […]

Right Turn: Acknowledging racism in academia with #ShutDownSTEM

Author: Stacey Johnson, 06/12/20

The discourse related to racism in (North) America is showing no signs of slowing down. Rightly so. The injustice and anger has been building for hundreds of years and while protests are not new, a global pandemic that is disproportionately hitting African Americans and African Canadians, police violence, the connectivity of social media, and lack […]

Right Turn: The need for diversity in STEM

Author: Stacey Johnson, 06/05/20

At the risk of appearing to be jumping on the bandwagon, it feels tone deaf right now to blog about something unrelated to racism in North America given how this important issue is currently dominating media coverage, our conversations and our thoughts. CCRM has written many times about the shortage of talent and leadership in […]

Right Turn: Exciting progress in treating Cystic Fibrosis

Author: Stacey Johnson, 02/28/20

I am going to take a guess that the teen romance movie Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, introduced many people to cystic fibrosis (CF). Certainly that was the case for my teenage daughter. I learned about CF through television ads, “back in the day,” which explained that the disease is […]