Stephanie was born and raised in Haworth, New Jersey, a small town just outside New York City. After spending some time in the private sector, she joined the Obama Administration, serving as chief speechwriter to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and, from 2013-2017, as speechwriter and communications advisor to the secretary of state. During her tenure at the State Department, Stephanie drafted the secretary’s speeches, op-eds, and talking points on the full range of U.S. foreign policy challenges, accompanied the secretary on official travel to more than 50 countries, and managed the secretary’s public engagement on climate change and other environmental issues. Most recently, she was an adjunct professor at the George Washington University and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she advised former Secretary of State John Kerry, Carnegie’s visiting distinguished statesman, on a range of projects. Stephanie is interested in the intersection of climate change and broader global security issues and hopes to use her time at the Woodrow Wilson School to expand her understanding of the climate-security nexus.