Stephanie is honored to join the Pop Culture Collaborative as Chief of Staff to the Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, Stephanie manages a range of projects and supports the Chief Strategy Officer on program strategy, resource development, and field analysis and insight synthesis. 

Stephanie began her career in refugee resettlement, and, for the past 8+ years, she was on the Packard Foundation’s Reproductive Health team where she supported grantee partners and the wider field to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice in the U.S. and globally. 

During her time at the Packard Foundation, Stephanie worked closely with the Foundation’s CEO and Reproductive Health Director to launch what has since become the Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equity. In addition, she managed the Reproductive Health Program’s South Asia, global research and advocacy, and humanitarian portfolios. 

For several years, Stephanie was a volunteer teacher with the Art of Yoga Project, through which she led trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness classes with incarcerated adolescent girls and nonbinary youth in San Jose, CA. Stephanie earned her M.A. in Poverty and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.