Stephanie is in her 27th year with the Voinovich School at Ohio University and in is responsible for organizational human capital and project leadership functions. Stephanie has extensive experience in securing and administering multi-million dollar, multi-disciplinary, innovative, and collaborative partnership grants and contracts that focus on utilizing university knowledge and resources to solve real-world problems in the State of Ohio and beyond.From 2010 to present, Stephanie has served as the Director for the PORTSfuture Program a multi-year, multi-disciplinary grant funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office focused on informing the cleanup and reindustrialization a DOE former uranium enrichment facility in Pike County, Ohio and regional K-12 STEM outreach. She collaborates with the local community reuse organization (known as SODI), DOE officials, Ohio organized labor groups, national laboratories, site contractors, State of Ohio regulatory agencies, local, state, and national elected officials, private industries, economic development entities, various subject matter experts, and the general public.From 2005-2008: Stephanie led a multi-organization, multi-disciplinary, public/private partnership project proposal team for Ohio University to successfully win a State of Ohio Third Frontier award that created TechGROWTH Ohio. This program focuses on technology-based economic development, technology commercialization, developing start-up and spin-out ventures, delivering entrepreneurial support services, and venture capital funding. She also led the project launch and execution team for the first two years until the program became fully staffed.From 1998-2005: Stephanie developed and directed large multi-million dollar, multi-entity collaborations funded by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) including: a state-wide technical assistance program to improve the administration of ODJFS services in Ohio’s 88 counties; a 29 county regional partnership focused on state and federal public assistance policy implementation at the county level; and a 29 county regional technical assistance initiative to implement federal Workforce Investment Act policies at the local level.Prior to coming to the Voinovich School in 1997, she worked for private non-profit organizations focused on sexual assault/domestic violence advocacy, and behavioral healthcare. Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master’s of Public Administration, both from Ohio University.