Stefanie leads UMC's communications strategy and serves as a special assistant for
state relations endeavors.
Her professional background includes experience in law, government relations, higher
education administration, and creative writing.
She earned her law degree at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College
of Law, her master's in creative writing from the University of Cambridge, and her
bachelor’s in English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
She enjoys spending time her family and moonlights as fiction writer and editor.
School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
About Allison
She focuses on writing new stories about Michigan Tech research -- everything from
robotic prostheses to mesocosms to the physics of raindrops.
A University of Montana graduate, she earned a master's degree in environmental science
and natural resource journalism, which built on her bachelor's in geoscience from
Northland College.
She also teaches dance through the Student Development Complex's community programs.
Her career includes writing for small-town newspapers in Montana and working as a
public information officer, an events coordinator, and science editor for an IEEE
publication, Earthzine.
She enjoys hiking and cross-country skiing with her family, reading voraciously, crocheting,
and exploring the Keweenaw.
The former Daily Mining Gazette journalist and editor hails from Houghton and has
written for a variety of international, national and regional publications.
She co-creates, writes and edits content for the University’s myriad forms of new
media, including websites, blogs and other outreach across departments, for new and
existing members of the Michigan Tech community.
She is a sailor who enjoys Yoga, social media, gardening, and anything near the water.
The debut novelist looks forward to writing more books.
