The Person Behind the Work
Tacia E. Spooner
Transformation Strategist. Systems Architect.
Principal, Table Stake Collective, LLC
Transformation Strategist. Systems Architect.
Principal, Table Stake Collective, LLC
Tacia Spooner is a Transformation Strategist, a practitioner who has spent more than two decades operating at the intersection of government systems, community development, and private enterprise. She is not a theorist. She carries real operational experience from building programs from the ground up, navigating institutional complexity under public scrutiny, and delivering results when the stakes were highest.
"I don't just advise from the sidelines. I build alongside the communities and partners I serve, committed to outcomes that create impactful partnership, not just transactions."
What makes Tacia rare is her range. She understands equity not as a talking point, but as an operational challenge that requires specific tools, honest data, and sustained accountability. She has crossed institutional boundaries in government, community, and the private sector and holds credibility in all three.
Accountability is not a sound bite. It is a practice.
Inclusion is a systems design problem, not a talking point.
Success is measured by what endures after the engagement ends.
"During her tenure as Kinship Director at the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, Tacia Spooner's leadership of the Kinship Navigator Program was cited by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a national model for how states develop and fund kinship navigator programs."
The program received federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was formally evaluated over four consecutive years by the State of Georgia.
Sources: Annie E. Casey Foundation. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Georgia DHS.
Table Stake Collective works across three interconnected areas because the same communities are touched by all three simultaneously.
Strategic planning, messaging architecture, brand identity, and social media strategy for individuals, organizations, and civic institutions.
What this means for you: Your message reaches the right people in the right language at the right moment. Not after you have already lost the room.
Campaign management, civic organizing, community events, stakeholder mobilization, and public communications.
What this means for you: The people who need to know you do. Trust that takes years to build gets built faster because we know how communities actually work.
Affordable supported housing designed around resident trajectory, not unit occupancy, with onsite coaching and wraparound support.
What this means for you: A model that proves community development can be built around people's actual needs. The gap between a roof and a life can be closed.