At Marketplace, Stephanie reports on business and economics, with a focus on education. She’s covered stories ranging from the effectiveness of technology used by schools to prevent violence to why theater majors are getting jobs writing for chatbots. Before that, she was the producer of “Marketplace Tech,” where she helped launch a series on climate and technology, called “How We Survive.” She also produced hundreds of interviews with newsmakers, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Stephanie has reported longer narrative stories for both print and podcast.  For The New York Times, she wrote about the extreme requirements parents are placing on caregivers, including requesting nannies who’ve already had Covid-19. For the Marketplace podcast “The Uncertain Hour,” Stephanie reported on what it’s like to deliver packages for Amazon as a gig worker—and how it can be maddeningly inefficient.

Previously, Stephanie worked as a producer for Bloomberg, where she covered finance, technology, and economics. Before that, she was the senior producer for “Maryland Morning,” broadcast on WYPR, the NPR affiliate in Baltimore. She’s also reported stories for NPR’s “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and Salon.

While at WYPR in Baltimore, Stephanie helped produce “The Lines Between Us,” a year-long, multi-platform series on race, wealth, and poverty, which won a duPont-Columbia Award. She’s also been chosen for fellowships with the Knight Digital Media Center in Berkeley, California, the Journalism and Women Symposium, and the RIAS program in Berlin, Germany.

Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied communications at the Annenberg School. Before she found her way to radio, she worked in the children’s division of the publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. A native of southern Delaware, Stephanie’s first foray into radio was with her two sisters, when they recorded broadcasts to cassette tapes for the (pretend) station WMPL (We Make People Listen). She now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. You can find her on Twitter @stephanie_h.

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