Stephanie Grepo

Stephanie V. Grepo is the Director of Capacity Building at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. She has built the capacity of more than 150 frontline defenders from 55 countries through the institute’s flagship capacity building program, the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). With the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from 2000 to 2007, Stephanie developed multi-ethnic experiential education programs in Kosovo; created and led a grants program of $1 million euros to support confidence-building projects in North Macedonia; worked on return and integration issues and led a field office of 10 staff in one of the most politically sensitive regions of Croatia; and served as the youth and education advisor to the OSCE Head of Mission in Serbia. She has observed elections in Bosnia and Georgia. A lecturer at The New School for a decade, Stephanie led graduate-level practicums with clients including the International Rescue Committee, the Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital, and Transparency International. In 2021, she joined the faculty of The School of The New York Times where she developed their first course on human rights. Stephanie earned a master’s degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.