Stephanie Jowers has more than fifteen years experience as an entrepreneur and producer of worldwide campaigns. She offers expertise in designing high-stakes initiatives and global youth movements. Her partner role at THIRSTY-FISH includes strategy, client relations, and operations. Stephanie has a steadfast aptitude for revealing hidden barriers to growth and inspiring leaders into action.

She offers a nuanced approach to stakeholder management and constituent relations. Stephanie has revamped membership engagement models for a range of institutions, including National Peace Corps Association and the Sierra Club. Currently based in New York City, Stephanie has lived abroad in Japan, Monaco, and Morocco. Most recently, Stephanie was the Director of Membership and Strategic Relations at the National Peace Corps Association in Washington, DC. She served the Peace Corps alumni community of 210,000 and managed agreements with 150+ country-of-service and geographical affiliates worldwide. In her role, she also negotiated strategic partnerships, managed donor stewardship, and revamped brand communications across the global network.

As a teenager in Louisiana, she helped found the Sierra Student Coalition (the student section of the Sierra Club) and played a pivotal role in the passage of the California Desert Protection Act in U.S. Congress. During this time, she was a weekly columnist for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, whereby she was awarded the Scotty Bourgeois Award of Excellence in Journalism. She also served as a member of the first teen panel for USA Today, the first Editor-in-Chief of a Sierra Club monthly print publication (circulation of 20,000 young environmentalists), and an inaugural board member of Students for a Free Tibet worldwide.

She has since served as the Deputy Director of a prominent non-governmental organization that used new media to bridge the digital divide – and produced start-up ventures in the United States and Monaco. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Tangier, Morocco, she supported business enterprises in the handicraft sector. Stephanie holds a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Tufts University.