Stephanie is the Executive Director for NAPPO. NAPPO is the Regional Plant Protection Organization that represents Canada, the United States and Mexico. In her role as Executive Director, she manages the NAPPO Secretariat’s human and financial resources while leading the fulfillment of the NAPPO Executive Committee’s Strategic Plan, yearly Work Program and priority goals for North America. Stephanie was born in Mexico and grew-up in Guatemala. She has an undergraduate in Biology from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and a Doctorate in Entomology from the University of California at Davis. Before joining NAPPO in mid-2015, she was a risk analyst and training specialist in the NPPO of the United States (USDA-APHIS-PPQ), where her responsibilities included development and review of pest risk analyses for import and export of agricultural commodities for consumption and propagation and the design, development and delivery of pest risk analysis workshops. While working for the NPPO of the United States, Stephanie was also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Entomology at North Carolina State University (NCSU). In collaboration with Professors at NCSU, Stephanie was the lecturer for two semester-long classes in regulatory plant protection entitled – Challenges in Plant Resource Protection and Introduction to Pest Risk Analysis. These classes formed part of a Minor in Plant Biosecurity at NCSU. Prior to working with USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Stephanie was an accomplished researcher and subject matter expert in the area of Sterile Insect Technique for several quarantine-significant plant pests including Mediterranean fruit fly, Mexican fruit fly, codling moth, false codling moth, cactus moth, date moth and diamondback moth. During her career she has authored more than 60 peer reviewed scientific publications and several book chapters. She has been married to her best friend Ken for 39 years. They live in North Carolina with their Golden Retriever female Fetch Bloem.