Meet Stephanie

Stephanie founded Healthcare Mask Collaborative (HMC) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, using her lifetime of public service experience to help our community. HMC has distributed over 68,000 cloth masks to 150 organizations, including nonprofits, healthcare organizations, first responders and our military, such as the OC Sheriff’s Department, Camp Pendleton, USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam. HMC pivoted towards the end of the pandemic to serve international communities in Peru, Guatemala, Venezuela and India. Read about HMC in the Orange County Register. 

Stephanie currently serves on:

• Laguna Niguel Investment, Banking and Audit Committee
• Laguna Niguel Youth Committee
• Laguna Niguel Military Support Committee
• Transportation Corridor Agency, San Joaquin Hills (The Toll Roads)
• Orange County Housing and Community Development Commission 
• Cal Cities, Environmental Policy Committee

Holding a B.A. from Penn State University and an M.A. from San Diego State University,

Stephanie worked as a public relations and web consultant for local government, non-profits and businesses. Her business won clients like Microsoft Government, Maryland Department of Energy and NASA. She also served as Director of Internet Technology for a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. and worked for a small public relations firm where her main clients were the Department of Justice, city of Washington, D.C. and EPA.