Stephanie Wilkinson

Year you became part of the HSH community: 2023

Current occupation: Senior Director of Engineering, National Association of Independent Schools

Areas of expertise: Engineering, Education

Why is service on a Board important to you?

Volunteering has always been one of my passions. I am excited to help HSH in any way I can, using my experience working with independent schools in California and elsewhere.

What drew you to HSH?

I love the community at HSH, how everyone is focused on getting to know and teach every child. It's such a special school environment and I am looking forward to helping nurture its future.

Stephanie Wilkinson lives in Oregon and specializes in product & engineering leadership in the education space. Her passion is using code to solve problems for people, and she loves learning new tools and increasing impact.

In 2009, Stephanie began writing code for schools at a small arts charter school in Washington DC for kids with IEPs. She honed her programming skills over the years, specializing in Ruby in the early years. She built out an engineering team in 2014 to expand her impact building critical software for schools. With that team, she sold the app they built to other accrediting organizations.

These days, you can find Stephanie directing the engineering department at the National Association of Independent Schools. Her teams build apps for member schools, and build the platforms and tools used by the NAIS staff.

Otherwise, you’ll find her building Duplo trains with her daughter Andromeda, hiking in the Siskiyou mountains, or working on open source projects.