Stephanie is a Denver-based journalist and audio producer with a focus on documentary and narrative work. But first, she was a professional ballet dancer, and had a decade-plus performing career with regional ballet companies.

Stephanie got her start in public media at Colorado Public Radio. She moved to Louisville, Ky. in early 2020 to cover arts, culture and religion for NPR member station Louisville Public Media. There she also helped cover major new events, including a pandemic-era Kentucky Derby, protests against police brutality, and the aftermath of weather-related disasters, including the 2021 tornadoes in west Kentucky and devastating flooding the following year in eastern Kentucky.

In 2021, she spent several months in Germany as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow through the International Center for Journalists. Much of her reporting abroad resulted in an hourlong radio documentary called “A Critical Moment,” an examination of how the U.S. and Germany teach school children about their country’s past atrocities, and why. It won a 2023 RIAS Media Prize for “Best in Radio,” an Education Writers Association (EWA) Award for “Best in Audio Storytelling/Smaller Newsrooms” and a regional Murrow Award for “Best News Documentary.”

Stephanie has also contributed reporting and producing to outlets like KFF Health News, NPR, Here & Now, NPR Music, PRI’s The World, Podcast Allies, The Texas Tribune, Whistledown Productions, The Colorado Sun, Boulder Reporting Lab and KEXP. She’s presently a podcast producer for CPR News.

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