Press Kit
STEPHANIE RENÈE PAYNE
Stephanie Renee Payne is a certified life coach, educator, diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging educator, writer & speaker. Her coaching practice focuses on facilitating a deep exploration into the self to cultivate self-love and inner wisdom. Stephanie came to this work while engaged in the writing of a memoir, and found herself confronted with childhood trauma and equity issues growing up in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. This discovery led to a five-year trek studying alternative healing practices that ultimately led Stephanie into the healing arts and equity education. Stephanie founded One Woman One Voice Project, a support network for women, and is the author of ESP: Extreme Self-Pampering for the Soul.
Stephanie holds a MFA in writing, and is a Doctoral candidate in Sustainable & Equitable Education. Stephanie is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her short fiction and non-fiction work have appeared, or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Shadowbox Literary Magazine, For Harriet, Woman2Woman Magazine, the Huffington Post, and LA Review, among others. Her TEDx Talk, The Myth of Male Dominance, is a compassionate examination of gender and behavioral responses to discrimination and oppressive cultural constructs with an invitation for healing.
Speaker Stephanie lectures on:
Diversity & Equity through contemplative practices
Self-love
Intuition
Women in leadership
Creating Positive and Collaborative Workspaces
The Writing Life
Stephanie is an interactive speaker who often has her attendees on their feet as they engage emotionally in the deep and probing topics she brings to the podium.
Please contact us at email@stephaniereneepayne.org for more information, or call us at: (213) 915-6509
Educator
Stephanie offers short courses on the following topics:
memoir writing, women empowerment, and leadership, expressive writing for healing
