Stephanie is on a mission to create a less wasteful and more resourceful built world. 🌎
She’s currently the Senior Deconstruction & Circular Economy Program Manager at the City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation. Visit the program’s website.
Her work bridges disciplines.
She administers the largest deconstruction ordinance in the United States, which aims to maximize building material salvage for reuse while advancing the City’s climate action, public health, affordable housing, cultural heritage, and workforce development goals.
In addition, she leads strategic local partnership development focused on building material recovery and reuse, which helped launch the Material Innovation Center at Port San Antonio; create a research partnership with UT-San Antonio; and integrate deconstruction contractor training into City workforce development initiatives. She is the co-founder of Circular San Antonio and a 2023 J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardee.
She loves forging interdisciplinary, silo-busting partnerships that help build local, equitable, and inclusive reuse ecosystems. (After all, the landfill doesn’t deserve reusable materials - our communities do!)
Specialties:
✸ Public speaking and presentations
✸ Stakeholder engagement
✸ Policy development and administration
✸ Program and project management
✸ Written and visual communication
✸ Leveraging optimism and vision to inspire action (her superpower!) ✨
Her work is also very fun. Deconstruction contractor training, November 2022.
✸ Recent Press
Grist / To keep buildings out of landfills, cities are embracing deconstruction
AIA New York Oculus / Circularity: Design for Deconstruction, Not Demolition
Erie Reader / It’s All Connected: Deconstruction, Reuse, and Climate Change
WIRED / Hey man, can I use that building when you’re done with it?
San Antonio Report / How San Antonio wants to change the way old houses are demolished
✸ Speaking Highlights
Keynote at Build Reuse Conference / Building a Reuse Policy Toolkit
PastForward Conference / Strategies for Climate Action (starting at 24:30)
CR0WD Conversations / San Antonio’s Path to a Deconstruction Ordinance
Salvaged Lumber Summit / Circularity in San Antonio (starting at 53:43)