Stephanie is an independent art historian who lives in Denver, Colorado. She is a former
academic who has been a member of both art and interdisciplinary faculty, and she has served on the advisory board of a university art gallery. As Colorado Yale Association president, she received a Yale Alumni Association Volunteer Leadership & Innovation award. She included events that dressed environmental and sustainability issues and tapped members to work toward the development of a YBG chapter. Stephanie has served on the YAA Board of Governors and has been an organizer of the Careers, Life and Yale committee’s virtual programming spotlighting alumni as well as leading a task force on graduate and professional school outreach. Featuring K12 teachers on the CLY schedule led to the development of a fledgling share-interest group, Yale Alumni Educators, and she joined its leadership. As a Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alum serving on the Board of Governors, Stephanie was an ex officio member of the Graduate School Alumni Association. She is also active in 1stGen Yale.

Stephanie grew up in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Her Italian grandfather worked in the coal
mines and died of black lung when her mother was pregnant with her father. Her mother was a nurse during the Donora smog of 1948, the worst environmental disaster in US history. She remembers coming home as a college student and encountering people sitting at cardboard
tables with petitions asking the government not to cap the stacks of the US Steel Mill where her other grandfather and her uncles worked.

Stephanie received her BA in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and her MA and PhD in the History of Art from Yale.