Stephanie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor and Peace Education Program Coordinator in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. 

She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She co-founded the Jill Knox Peace through Humor Fellowship program, which offers professional development to peacebuilders through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. 

Her teaching, research, and writing interests currently lie at the intersection of regenerative peace pedagogies, re-enchanting and re-imagining education, and transrational ways of knowing such as community dreamwork.