Stefanie Coleman has lived on three continents, owns two pets, raises one reader, and spends her free time in coffee shops requesting better tea selections and equal treatment for all tea drinkers in this coffee world. She’s a published essayist who is deeply interested in how the personal intersects the universal. A storyteller in the Chicago live-lit scene, she knows stories can change the world.

Stefanie works as Coordinator of Partnerships for CultureBuilds by 2nd Story - a storytelling non-profit that helps individuals and companies tell the stories that drive them. She has a Masters of Divinity from Emmanuel Christian Seminary in Johnson City, TN. She also serves as an Editor for NewThing, a global church planting organization dedicated to helping church leaders launch and lead networks of churches to plant even more churches (whew, that’s a lot of church!).