Co-Founder/Managing Partner, Stephenie K. Smith, serves as Sophic Solutions' lead authority on executive project management, organizational structure & design and operations improvement. She has led a number of efforts to align not-for-profit policy with community investments, with a special emphasis on large-scale transformation. Specifically, Stephenie's work has focused on the effects of poverty and oppression. In so doing, community revitalization, change management and diversity, equity & inclusion have taken center stage. These involvements have led to her serving on a number of local boards and national committees. Stephenie is a Kansas City, Kansas native who graduated from Fisk University and the University of Tennessee's College of Social Work.