Stephanie is an organizer, writer, and film producer

leading strategic campaigns that use documentary films to build movement power.

She serves as Director of Film Impact and Innovation at Peace is Loud, where she oversees their impact campaigns and Collective Lens impact trainings. She is currently leading a campaign for Cherien Dabis’s Academy Award-shortlisted multigenerational Palestinian epic All That’s Left of You.

Stephanie also helps filmmakers prioritize care for themselves and their film participants, and created six first-of-their-kind resources to enable the documentary industry to put this into practice. The driving force behind Stephanie’s participant care work is her own experience as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Erna Trocola, who was featured in Steven Spielberg’s documentary The Lost Children of Berlin. Witnessing the power of her grandmother’s storytelling on her family and the film’s audiences was foundational, and continues to fuel her today.

Before joining Peace is Loud, Stephanie was an archival producer and worked with filmmakers including Michael Moore, Tia Lessin, and Martin Scorsese since 2003. In addition, she is a former assistant editor at O, the Oprah Magazine, and a freelance writer published in The Believer and Vulture. She’s also been involved in community organizing for nearly three decades, from organizing anti-sweatshop protests to building infrastructure for Occupy Wall Street’s public communications.

Stephanie was named one of DOC NYC’s 2023 Documentary New Leaders, and is a member of FWD-DOC, Film Workers for Palestine, and the Artist Support branch of Future Film Coalition. She served on the inaugural Nominations Committee for the Henry Awards, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School. Past speaking engagements include Firelight Media, Kartemquin Films, The Center for Asian American Media, The Documentary Accountability Working Group, The Gotham, Global Impact Producers Alliance, DOC NYC, NBCU, Perspective Fund, School of Visual Arts, and Good Pitch, among many others.