Stephanie Garvey is a US diplomat with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has served in multiple countries overseas, including Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Ghana, Mali, and Cambodia, working on both bilateral and regional programming. She is a technical specialist in the areas of democracy, good governance and peacebuilding and has worked extensively on programming related to human rights, rule of law, elections, civil society, and countering violent extremism. Ms. Garvey holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and English from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She served in the Peace Corps in Namibia.