Recognized as Top 10 Women of Worth in Canada by Loreal Paris and Canada Top 100 Powerful Women, Stachen Frederick has over 20 years in the field of community/program development internationally and in Canada. She is Founder of BrAIDS for AIDS, a not-for-profit to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the African ,Caribbean and Black Communities in Canada and internationally through a culturally relevant practice of hair braiding. She is also the Executive Director of Weston Frontlines Centre: a youth charity in Toronto and a current professor at Sheridan College

She has done consultancy work for organizations such as The Spot, AIDS Committee of Toronto, Gateway for New Canadians.She has facilitated grant writing workshops for a number of organizations including Carleton University, the Jean Augustine Centre for young women empowerment and City of Toronto.

Her work has also been recognized by Black History Ottawa, the High Commission of Trinidad and Tobago,YMCA Canada, How She Hustles with CBC Toronto, the Black Health Alliance and The Minister of Immigration and Citizenship .