Stephanie works for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) as the Chief Public Policy & Research Officer. In 2018 she launched AFB’s Public Policy and Research Institute, which conducts mixed-methods research that informs AFB’s policy advocacy. She provides strategic leadership for the policy and research functions on technology and transportation issues across the lifespan.
Prior to AFB, she spent a decade serving in federal and California state government. She was the Disability & Inclusion Advisor at the Corporation for National and Community Service, where she provided thousands of nonprofit grantee organizations with guidance and resources to meet their obligations under disability rights laws.
Stephanie is also a former Skadden Foundation Fellow for Disability Rights Advocates and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where she served as an Editor-in-Chief of Recent Developments for the UCLA Women’s Law Journal. She launched the National Association of Law Students with Disabilities organization and served as its first President. In 2023, she was appointed by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Access Board. Stephanie is blind and lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband and four daughters and step-daughters.
