Manage, develop and support impact and engagement campaigns for national programs for PBS, including Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. During my tenure, I have established and worked with national partners, developed engagement strategies, handled station relationships in PBS system related to programs, produced educational and engagement assets, collaborated with producers, and managed grant activity for stations. Programs that I have worked on include:- Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories (2023)- Making Black America (2022)- The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)- Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Health (2022)- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Black Church (2021)- Engagement & Education Manager, The Asian Americans (2020)- Ken Burns' The Gene (2020)- Ken Burns' East Lake Meadows (2020)- Mental Health: Well Beings Tour (2020 - 2021)- Ken Burns' Country Music (2019)- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Reconstruction (2019)- Ken Burns' The Mayo Clinic (2018)- Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War (2017)- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Africa’s Great Civilizations (2017)- Finding Your Roots (2015 - present)- Ric Burns' Debt of Honor (2015)- Ken Burns’ Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies (2015)Highlights:- Developing one of the largest educational projects for a PBS program, Asian Americans. This includes working with key partners, curriculum writers, and liaison with PBS.- Managed Ken Burns' national engagement campaign around Country Music, including working with national partners, supporting full station engagement from all PBS stations, managed 30 grantees, developed assessment tools, reporting- The Gene: Work with partners, designer, and NIH/NHGRI to design and create THE GENE specific component panels for integration into the DIY Smithsonian Exhibit – Unlocking Life’s Code (“DIY Exhibit”)- Developed full educational scope of Henry Louis Gates, Jr's last four documentary series: Making Black America, The Black Church, Reconstruction and Africa's Great Civilizations.

Working with University of Washington as a video producer, which include guest speakers, special events, board meetings and the UW commencement.- Experience with hands-on video pre-production, production, and post-production workflows.- Managing client relationships and assessing scope of work.- Field producing and managing productions- Overseeing the post-production process for projects through completion and final delivery

Award-winning creative producer and director. Experiences include branded content, corporate videos, commercials, and nonprofit storytelling with clients such as Amazon, Microsoft, University of Washington, Creative Media Alliance, Pyramide, Children's Alliance, and more. Stefanie’s a passionate visionary with expertise in leading cross-functional and creative teams, and adept at project management with a track record of producing high quality work. Additionally, Stefanie produces and directs documentaries. Her work has been shown at Seattle International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, One Reel, Rooftop Films NYC, Local Sightings, Couch Fest Films, Athens International Film Festival, and has been featured on PBS, Alaska Airlines and National Geographic.- Pitching clients concepts - Creating, delivering and upholding a Scope of Work- Understand the customer journey- Experience with hands-on video pre-production, production, and post-production workflows.- Writing and directing projects and creative oversight- Expertise in production budgeting and scheduling- Field producing and managing productions- Overseeing the post-production process for projects through completion and final delivery- Proven track record of presenting to executive level stakeholders- Ability to run multiple high-level video productions at once- Manage client relationships to assure internal and external stakeholders alignment, by negotiating and managing client expectations and satisfaction

This is NOT really a ten year position, please read: I led NFFTY from 2013 - 2017 as their Executive Director. When they were having challenges in fall of 2023, I returned to the helm of NFFTY for the 2024 festival. NFFTY is a nonprofit film festival with an international presence and NFFTY Creative is a production company within NFFTY.- In 2023- 2024, Stefanie stabilized NFFTY through restructuring, budget adjustments, partnership negotiations, and increased fundraising efforts.- Artistic direction of the festival, including developing and establishing programming and initiatives. Includes: Screenwriting Competition, Virtual Reality Festival, Women in Film Initiative and Works in Progress.- Oversight of operations and infrastructure, including budget, building and tracking timelines and working with outside vendors and venues.- Establish strategic partnerships, expanding NFFTY’s brand worldwide, including relationships with Sundance, British Film Institute, Adobe, PBS, Toronto International Film Festival and more.- Business development, securing $200,000+ festival sponsorships, including Canon, Expedia and Volvo. Includes market research, developing pitches, and managing client relationships. - Recruited and managed staff, contractors, volunteers and interns. - Brand development and direction of marketing, including strategy, social media and media analysis. Directed development of festival website.- Growth of festival submissions by 110%. 20% increase in festival attendance. 30% in festival program offerings.As Executive Producer of NFFTY Creative [NFFTY's Production Company and Creative Arm]:- Oversight from concept to development to delivery on original ADDY and Telly® award-winning branded content to clients such as Volvo, KIND, Expedia, vitaminwater® and Vitamin Angels.- Pitched clients and worked to establish needs.- Leadership and creative guidance to production team/s.

-Emmy® award-winning producer. Developed and produced programs for broadcast, includes concept, production coordination, scriptwriting, approval of final edits and securing and working with outside funders and partners.- Program development and management of national and statewide initiatives utilizing project management to ensure all deliverables are met and adherence to timelines and budgets.- Direction of station promotional events that seek to engage the community and develop an audience.- Oversight of digital assets, social media and webpages for station initiatives.- Management of department, project teams, creative teams and contract employees.- Creation and management of multiple budgets for productions and station initiatives.Highlights include: - Ken Burns’ initiatives and tent pole campaigns, tying broadcast, online, marketing and events into seamless campaign. Under my tenure, we moved KCTS the highest rated station in the PBS system.- Crafted, launched and supported community initiatives of impact, including early learning, environmental programs, history programming, and more. - Developed and launched the KCTS 9 Media Lab, technology lab with digital storytelling classes and production management. - Launched and managed Vme service, Spanish-language television channel.- Developed standalone PBSkids.org website Don't Buy It.- Direction of award-winning material, programming and activities creation for educators, including Parenting Counts, QUEST educational campaign and Golden Apple Awards.

Developed and launched nationally-distributed media, television and education projects:- Concept and development of the Parenting Counts Campaign, distributed nationally on PBS, in partnership with the Talaris Institute. This campaign was created to engage and educate parents and caregivers of young children on child development and included on-air interstitials (PSAs) and curriculum that was distributed through the PBS Ready To Learn program. - Content Director of PBSKids.org website: Don't Buy It - a media literacy website for tweens. Funding from CPB.Produced regional initiatives and tent-pole projects:- Launched statewide early learning initiative at KCTS with a summit that brought together education leaders and contributed to our project plan. This project produced dozens of partnerships; creation of Washington State Exceptional Caregiver Awards; annual conference; television programming, workshops and events.- Project manager of "tent pole"​ projects that included community, online and on-air components into a seamless campaign. Launched and oversight of Vme - Spanish language television programming and community activities to support Washington state's fast-growing Hispanic and Latino demographic. Secured funding from the State of Washington to support the launch and develop a sustained service aimed at Washington Latinos.Managed the Ready To Learn service of KCTS, a national initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education. This project supported outreach and education for educators and caregivers of children birth - eight years of age. Designed curriculum, trainings, produced events and managed workshop trainers. Led a stationwide initiative called KCTS Kids, which involved bridging marketing, outreach, programming and production into a cohesive strategy.

Advised and supported students at Antioch University who applied for prior learning credits in media and film production, determining eligibility for university credits for their learning. Included meeting with students to review proposed demonstration, testing and final evaluation for submission to Antioch University.