Steacy Collyer
a passionate reader, former first grade teacher, literacy consultant, founder and current CEO of Calgary Reads, Steacy Collyer has spent her entire life ensuring that children learn to read. Steacy is a life long community volunteer and has been a recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and recognized as one of 150 women to have impacted Calgary in the YWCA Calgary’s “She Who Dares” Canada 150 project.
Ever the “possibilitarian,” Steacy has nurtured, with uplifting tenacity, Calgary Reads into the Alberta Reads Network, a provincial reading movement and inspired The Children’s Reading Place which is Calgary’s biggest Little Free Library. She has also brought together unlikely collaborators from education, healthcare, business and other non-profits to bring equity to children’s literacy learning opportunities. Most importantly Steacy is the proud mom of three daughters who are her best teachers.