He is also the founder and executive director of African Sky, a nonprofit organization that serves hardworking farm families in rural Mali, West Africa. Dr. Lacy earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His nonprofit and academic work has been featured in two major documentaries, Sustaining Life and Nyogonfe: Together, and he is a coauthor of two popular textbooks, Applying Anthropology and Applying Cultural Anthropology.