Stephanie Stenberg

Stephanie Stenberg (she/hers) is a senior program manager of community relationships with Internet2. She previously served as the director of the Internet2 Community Anchor Program (CAP), collaborating with regional networking partners, community anchor institutions like K-12 schools and libraries, and Internet2 membership organizations. Her work focused on bringing networking, trust and identity services, and advanced applications to community anchor institutions nationwide. Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Wayne State University.

Stephanie is passionate about digital inclusion and equity. She has worked on several Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded grants, including serving as principal investigator on two grants totaling nearly $500,000 (RE-246219-OLS-20 and RE-256732-OLS-24). These grants focused on developing and promoting the free Toward Gigabit Libraries Toolkit, which helps rural, tribal, and urban library staff understand and improve their library’s broadband and IT environment. The toolkit is available for free download at https://internet2.edu/tgl.

Since joining Internet2, Stephanie has managed projects such as CAP’s Regional Network Spotlight profiles of research and education networks, the Presidential Primary Sources Project distance learning series, a partnership with the National Park Service and the National Archives, the CAP's Distance Learning Scholarship Program, a virtual field trip scholarship program for teachers and school librarians in schools connected to Internet2’s network, and the Rose-Werle Award for outstanding contributions to the Internet2 community anchor institution community.