Dr. Stacey Benson is the Co-Founder and CEO of STAND. She is a licensed psychologist with over 30 years’ of experience working with individuals who have engaged in sexual harm. She has worked in a federal prison, an inpatient psychiatric facility, community mental health and outpatient mental health.

Dr. Benson has been a board member of the North Dakota Psychological Association since 2005 and served as President for two of those years. She served 6 terms as North Dakota's Council Representative to the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Benson is a member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), the Minnesota Association of Sexual Abusers (Mn-ATSA), and the North Dakota Psychological Association (NDPA). She is an alumni of APA’s Leadership Institute for Women.

Dr. Benson is a certified trainer in the Static 99R, Stable 2007, and Acute 2007, the most well-studied and most-used assessment instruments for sexual offenders in the world, and she has trained providers in Minnesota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wyoming, Florida, and New York.

She has spoken at the University of North Dakota Medical School’s Grand Rounds, at the University of North Dakota, North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University-Moorhead, Merit Care, Sanford, Prairie St. John’s, the North Dakota State Penitentiary, the North Dakota Psychological Association, the Minnesota Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Annual Conferences, The State Bar Association of North Dakota Annual Conference, provided Victims Advocacy training to the military, spoke at the PATH foster families Spring Conference, the Red River Valley Children's Advocacy Center Spring Conference, to local churches and organizations and on local radio and television regarding sexual offenses and sexual offenders.

Dr. Benson has been nominated for Teacher of The Year by the Psychiatry Residents of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, for APA’s State Leadership Award by the North Dakota Psychological Association. She was awarded YWCA’s Women of the Year in 2018 in the category of Health and Wellness, and was named a MSUM Distinguished Alumni in 2023.

Dr. Benson has dedicated three decades of her professional life to working to ensure the safety of North Dakota's citizens by providing education to the public and treatment and assessment to those who have perpetrated sexual offenses in order to help them live a lifestyle that is incompatible with future sexual harm.