Stephanie has served as a supervising attorney for NIJC’s Immigrant Children’s Protection Project and a managing attorney for NIJC’s Asylum Project. Previously, Stephanie was a staff attorney and then supervising attorney with the Central American Resource Center’s Deportation Defense Unit. Stephanie graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University with a bachelor of arts in Hispanic studies, sociology, and women’s and gender studies, and she received her master of arts in trauma studies from Tel Aviv University. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Stephanie served as the executive comments editor of the Chicago Journal of International Law and as a child advocate with the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. She was awarded the Edward F. Mandel Award for her contribution to the law school’s clinical education program. Stephanie has volunteered and worked with immigrant rights organizations in Boston, Los Angeles, Madrid, Tel Aviv, and Chicago.