Stefanie Spear has spent her career of 34 years in the media/publishing field. At 19, she launched her first company, Affinity, a newspaper that educated and motivated people to care about human health and the environment. As a pioneer in the environmental publishing space, Stefanie launched EcoWatch in 2005. In 2011, Stefanie successfully transitioned EcoWatch from print to online in partnership with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. EcoWatch quickly became the nation’s leading environmental news site, bringing millions of people a month to the website that touted the work of the grassroots environmental community, encouraged readers to become conscious of their impact on the earth, and provided innovative solutions to the many problems impacting the health of people and planet.During the 1990s, Stefanie spent time protecting old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. She was a short-term editor for the Earth First! Journal, and did forest service monitoring in Oregon's Willamette National Forest.Stefanie launched Expedite Renewable Energy in 2007. Her consulting company installed solar and wind projects throughout Northeast Ohio and worked with municipalities to pass aggressive and progressive wind and solar zoning regulations, including the City of Cleveland’s wind zoning.In 2012, Stefanie was featured in Cleveland Magazine as one of the city's Most Interesting People.In 2020, Stefanie took part in the North Pacific Ocean leg of eXXpedition, a two-year sailing voyage with an all-women team of researchers to raise attention on plastic pollution. She sailed from Panama City, Panama to the Galápagos Islands.Stefanie is CEO of Stellar Consulting, which she founded in late 1990. For 20 years, the company’s focus was graphic design. More recently, the company has worked with nonprofit clients, including As You Sow, where she worked for seven years as the company’s earned media consultant.In 2020, Stefanie joined Kennedy at Children’s Health Defense where they co-founded The Defender, the news and views website for the organization, which reaches millions of people a month exposing corruption in Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Tech, Big Energy, and Big Chemical. She was the founding editor and chief. When Kennedy decided to run for president of the United States, Stefanie took leave from CHD to work on the campaign.Now, as press secretary and director of media relations for the Kennedy campaign, Stefanie is in charge of the campaign's press strategy and press team. Follow Stefanie on Twitter at @StefanieSpear and Instagram @stefaniepennspear