Prior to arriving in Wisconsin, Genie served on the Board of the Directors of the High Country Conservancy and served in many capacities including Project Coordinator, Secretary, Landowner Liaison, Fundraiser, and right hand person to the Executive Director.  She also worked closely with the North Carolina Conservation Trust and focused on organizing a coalition of land trusts in the mountain counties of North Carolina and coordinating efforts and possible mergers with neighboring land trusts. 

Genie was also elected to the Valle Crucis Community Council where she was involved in community visioning and served as liaison with the land trust trying to protect the valley and gaining recognition for Valle Crucis on the National Register of Historic Places. 

Genie has a B.A. in English and Elementary Education from Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina.  From 1962 to 1974, Genie worked as a teacher.  She spent two years teaching high school to soldiers in Mainz, Germany and ten years in the Davidson, North Carolina public school system. 

Genie raised two children with her late husband Robert Tyler Stone.  She is a Practitioner of Structural Integration and the founder of the Southlands Institute that focused on organizing writing workshop opportunities for amateur and professional writers and artists in Boone, North Carolina and Asheville, North Carolina. 

In 2005 Genie married David Meissner and moved from Valle Crucis, North Carolina to Wisconsin.  Since moving to Wisconsin she has been active in the state chapter of The Nature Conservancy and served as Honorary Co-Chair of the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust Donges Bay Gorge Fundraising Campaign.