Stephanie is an adjunct instructor at Pacific University of Oregon’s Masters in nonprofit leadership program. She serves on the board of Orchid Capital Collective, an impact investing firm centering community-owned solutions to transform birth and reproductive care, and Pacific University of Oregon’s advisory committee for it masters in nonprofit leadership program. Stephanie founded Black Women Write in 2018, a nonprofit organization that uplifts and supports Black women writers on the path to publication. Black Women Write has chapters in Sacramento, CA, and Seattle, WA.
A creative writer, Stephanie’s short stories have been published in the literary journal Speak The Sojourner and The 2024 African American Writer’s Alliance Anthology. Her essay, The Heart is Strongest in the Broken Places, was published by Next Avenue, an online publication for readers and writers aged 50+. Her short story, Sherwood Green’s Last Picture Show, was performed by Stories on Stage Sacramento in 2022.
Stephanie graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and holds a certificate from Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management.
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