Stephanie Maxey
Stephanie grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado and decided to experience life on her own in a below zero degree climate as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota. Stephanie earned her BA in Speech/Communications and began what she had hoped would be an exciting and long-term career in television production. After a few years, she was divinely guided to make a career change and embarked on many enriching years in sales and marketing positions for small, entrepreneurial organizations. She is currently back in Colorado working for a commercial interior furnishings dealer. She met her husband, Charlie Christensen, and her bonus son, Alex while in Minnesota, and their family grew to include Spencer, Kassie and Cole. More recently, after fostering 9 dogs for potential service training careers, Labradors Brick and Secret were adopted into their family.
Stephanie is feeling very fortunate about her trifecta with NLC – she was first a mentor of a student in the 2010 class, is a parent of 3 NLC kids (2018C, 2020T and 2023B), and is now stepping into the class leader role. Stephanie draws on her involvement with Junior Achievement, Big Brothers/Sisters and AFS Intercultural Programs, along with experience as a Sunday School teacher, bunkhouse parent, PTO and Booster Club board members, church clerk, reading room attendant and youth sports enthusiast. She has every expectation to be inspired by, and to learn from, these teens as they take on this spiritual stewardship together.