Stephanie Springer is the Director of Internships & Career Readiness and a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Public & Applied Humanities. Over the past decade, she has mentored more than 1,800 students, guiding them through the process of finding, securing, and completing internships throughout diverse industries and both locally and internationally. From 2014 to 2019, Stephanie held a faculty appointment at the UA’s Zuckerman College of Public Health. In 2019, she joined the UA’s College of Humanities where she developed the Applied Humanities career readiness and internship program. Her expertise lies in helping students to recognize their strengths and build the confidence needed to launch and navigate their careers. Additionally, she provides consultation on university internship policies, integrating career readiness learning into academic curricula, and developing tools to evaluate and assess the impact of internship programs.
Stephanie is a University of Arizona alum, where she earned a master’s degree in Public Health, along with graduate certificates in College Teaching and Geographic Information Science. As an undergraduate at Kansas State University, she double-majored in Speech Communication and Anthropology, and studied abroad in Prague at Univerzita Karlova.
Outside of her academic career, Stephanie enjoys hooping - so much so that she owns a dozen hula hoops of various sizes and she can play the piano and hula hoop at the same time.