For more than 23 years, Stephanie has worked at the intersection of arts, strategy, and social change,

building the partnerships, programs, and infrastructure that help artists and creative communities thrive. Her work focuses on strengthening the ecosystems that nurture storytellers—from designing artist support programs and leading original research to advancing organizational strategy and cross-sector collaboration.

As a senior nonprofit leader, Stephanie has developed programs that supported thousands of women, trans, and nonbinary filmmakers through trainings, residencies, workshops, and individualized mentorship. She has led multi-year initiatives that produced widely adopted resources for more inclusive and care-centered filmmaking, forged partnerships across philanthropy, education, and the nonprofit sector, and collaborated with boards, funders, artists, and community partners to expand organizational impact.

Earlier in her career, Stephanie worked in documentary film production, contributing to projects directed by filmmakers including Michael Moore, Martin Scorsese, and Oprah Winfrey, and she has led impact campaigns for acclaimed films including All That's Left of You, Knock Down the House, and The Hunting Ground. That experience continues to inform her approach to artist support, grounding her work in firsthand knowledge of the creative, strategic, and practical realities filmmakers navigate throughout the life of a project.

Stephanie is at her best where strategy meets relationships, bringing together artists, funders, communities, and partners to build stronger, more connected systems that enable creative work to flourish.

Stephanie was named one of DOC NYC’s 2023 Documentary New Leaders, and is a member of FWD-DOC 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, and School of Visual Arts, among many others.