Senior Archaeologist and Corporate Treasurer

M.S., Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2000
B.A., magna cum laude, Latin, The University of Arizona, 1991

Stephenie has worked as an archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest since 1992.

At WillametteCRA, she oversees small and large-scale pedestrian and shovel probe surveys, as well as multi-season monitoring and data recovery projects at archaeological sites in the Puget Sound and Olympia Peninsula. She manages multiple on-call cultural resources contracts for municipal and state agencies and Tribal governments.

Prior to coming to WillametteCRA in 2015, Stephenie was the Assistant State Archaeologist for the State of Washington. During her 14-year tenure at the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP), Stephenie provided applicants guidance on successful application strategies and consulted and negotiated with federal, state, local, and Tribal government officials and staff, attorneys, private landowners and archaeological consultants.

She has an expert understanding of the administration of section 106 of the NHPA, RCW 27.53 & 27.44, the public records act and the regulatory environment of cultural resources management.

She has written numerous memoranda of understanding and agreements (MOU and MOA), settlement agreements, as well as cultural resources technical reports and regional journal articles.

She is a member of the Association for Washington Archaeology, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, and serves on the Washington State Historic Cemetery Advisory Committee and Governor Inslee’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.