Who is Catalyzing Inspiration?

A native of San Francisco, Stephanie is a dedicated academic/life coach nurturing local youth to discover their potential. Her background is varied, committed to creating lasting change to life challenges at the grassroots and systematic level in topics such as poverty, human rights violations and environmental injustices. Her work includes working as a U.S. diplomat and activist across Europe, Africa and Latin America. Wanting to make a change in the lives of individuals, she has taught writing, Spanish, social sciences up to the Master’s level for nine years. She specializes in mentoring youth to approach projects intuitively and methodologically to gain self-confidence in challenges. She also tutors French, English, college applications, study skills and homeschools youth K-9. Her B.A. is in Comparative Politics and French from Boston University, where she studied politics and art in France, and Master’s from the London School of Economics in Nationalism and Ethnicity – conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.

 Stephanie offers a rare perspective in international affairs – working from donor, NGO, indigenous, media and activist lenses through her diverse experiences, in Latin America, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, Western Europe, Africa and Asia. Stephanie has designed reforms globally for better youth opportunities. She currently teaches an international development and poverty reduction class at the graduate level at the University of San Francisco focusing on a unique Global South perspective unwinding colonization. Her approach combines education and engaged mentorship.  She also is very engaged working in her native California with local and international tribes around indigenous wisdom and climate change.

Fun fact: Stephanie loves yoga, swimming, being in nature and raced single-handed sailboats from the age of 12 in the San Francisco Bay and around the country.