Stacy Jolley's life has taken her from theater to motherhood, community volunteering, elected office, and back to the stage as creator of Advice Night. We talk about choosing public life, being needed, changing identities, and what other people’s questions can tell us about the times in which we live and about herself.

Stacy Jolley is a longtime community volunteer and elected member of the Millard Public Schools Board of Education. She also works several part-time jobs, including as a standardized patient helping train future healthcare professionals. More recently, she has returned to another early interest—performance—as the creator and host of Advice Night, a live show mixing humor, conversation, and the dilemmas people bring from their everyday lives.