Stephanie is the Chief Programs and Insights Officer. She is responsible for leading, PAI’s portfolio of programs, delivering measurable outcomes supporting AI that centers people and society first. She first joined PAI’s Labor and & Economy team, where she jointly led the creation of the Guidelines for AI & Shared Prosperity, a high-level job impact assessment tool and set of responsible practices for key stakeholders in the AI & labor ecosystem to ensure the technological gains from AI create equitable economic growth and high quality jobs. In earlier work, she engaged with workers around the globe to understand their experiences of AI in the workplace, culminating in the PAI report AI & Job Quality: Insights from Frontline Workers. Her work and insights have been featured in publications and venues such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Brookings Institution, and The Economist Impact, and cited in testimony to the US Senate. 

Prior to joining PAI, Stephanie was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where she led teams and projects in the public and private sectors on the future of work, economic development, and worker retraining and reskilling. Stephanie has also advised nonprofits and foundations as a consultant at The Bridgespan Group.

She holds a DPhil in Politics and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. For her doctoral thesis, she conducted ethnographic research on how people combine their everyday expertise with technocratic knowledge to advocate for change in democratic societies, studying a student movement working to reform public education in South Africa. She also holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. 

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