Nor Cal Outreach Chair

Stephanie has extensive experience in campaign strategy, communications, grassroots organizing and media relations for political campaigns and non-profit organizations. She has led successful municipal and issue-based campaigns for Hope Road Consulting and is personally involved in every aspect of each project.

Prior to forming Hope Road Consulting, LLC, Stephanie was the Project Manager for Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth where she managed issue advocacy campaigns on childcare, youth opportunities, and education. She was the Campaign Manager for Proposition D – the Children’s Fund Campaign and was a Communications Consultant for several nonprofit organizations.

Stephanie serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of Chinese for Affirmative Action, an organization with a long history of advocacy on behalf of the Asian Pacific Islander community. She serves as Treasurer of Coleman Action Fund, a political voice for working families in San Francisco.

Stephanie is actively involved with Emerge California, a political leadership training program for Democratic women. She is one of the founders of PowerPAC.org, an organization building a social justice political agenda for California.

Stephanie’s commitment to engaging disenfranchised communities in the political process is rooted in her own immigration experience from the Philippines at the age of nine. Her family’s struggle to overcome cultural challenges is what fuels her drive to create effective communication strategies relevant to California’s emerging communities.

Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University.

Stephanie and her husband Chris Stillman are big on traveling and list Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba, and Thailand among their favorites. They live in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco with their dog Bootsy.