As Creative Director at GPEC, Stefanie leads the organization’s creative vision, overseeing brand strategy, design, photography and visual storytelling across marketing campaigns, events and digital experiences. Since joining GPEC in 2015, she has played a key role in evolving the organization’s brand while building a high-performing in-house creative team and expanding GPEC’s creative capabilities. She is passionate about using thoughtful design to communicate complex ideas, strengthen partnerships and elevate Greater Phoenix’s story.
Her work has earned recognition at the local, national and international levels, including a Spectrum Award from the American Marketing Association (AMA) for GPEC’s Convening the Community series, a MarCom Gold Award for Greater Phoenix is Poppin’, an IEDC Gold Award for GPEC’s FY24 Annual Report design and an AZIMA Mastery Award for the integrated CA Struggles campaign. A collaborative leader, Stefanie is always looking for new ways to improve creative processes, empower her team and deliver meaningful work that advances GPEC’s mission.
Stefanie has also been a longtime advocate for Arizona’s arts community. She founded and continues to curate GPEC’s rotating local art exhibit, providing a platform for hundreds of Arizona artists while strengthening connections between the arts and economic development communities. In 2023, she served a one-year term as Programming Chair on the Board of Directors for AIGA Arizona, the state chapter of the nation’s leading professional association for design.
When she’s not leading creative projects, Stefanie enjoys photography, painting, cooking, practicing yoga, birding, exploring Arizona’s outdoors and traveling the world with her family.