DEL. STACEY PLASKETT (D-VI)
Stacey E. Plaskett (born May 13, 1966) is an American politician, attorney and commentator who is currently the 5th Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands’ at-large congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Plaskett has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She is known for her understanding[citation needed] of Caribbean economic development and public-private partnerships for growing the economy of developing areas.
Plaskett was born on May 13, 1966 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 migrants 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.
