Stephanie is CoCap’s Founder & Principal Consultant. As a trainer, she draws on her experience as a lecturer teaching Evidence-Based Decision Making to Master of Public Administration students at University of Colorado Denver and as Network Science Fellowship director for Visible Network Labs. She also leverages training in effective college instruction from the Association of College and University Educators.

Throughout each training, she draws on practical experience gained as Collaborative Systems Scientist at the Public Health Institute (2025-present), Director of MERLIN (Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Innovations) at the Public Health Institute’s Population Health Innovation Lab (2020-present), senior researcher at the University of Colorado Denver’s Center on Network Science (2017-2020), multiple roles at the Spokane Regional Health District (2011-2017), president of the School Health Care Association of Spokane County (2015-2017), and board member for Communities in Schools of Spokane County (2015-2017).

Stephanie leverages academic training gained while earning a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Affairs with a concentration in collaborative governance from University of Colorado Denver and a Master of Arts in Administrative Leadership from Whitworth University, with additional coursework completed through Washington State University’s Master of Health Policy and Administration program.