Director, Global Academic Partnerships and Engagement
Stephanie Alt Lamm has over thirty years of experience in the fields of international education, community service, and higher education administration. She currently directs global academic partnerships and engagement for the Sanford School with primary responsibility for the Duke Global Policy Program in Geneva, the Sanford Coverdell Peace Corps Fellows Program, and funding partnerships for Sanford’s on campus master’s programs. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Scranton and a master’s degree in international administration from the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont. She has served with the Youth Conservation Corps in the Hudson Valley of New York, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in the Central Valley of California, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, and with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program in Japan. She has worked as the Assistant Director of Tulane University's International Student and Scholar Office and, for 25 years, directed the operations, programs, and services for Sanford’s Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program. She founded the first Coverdell Peace Corps Fellows Program at Duke and in the state of North Carolina with the Sanford School of Public Policy. She was awarded a NAFSA fellowship for a one-month professional exchange to Bolivia in 1998, the Sanford School Staff Excellence Award in 2009 and the Dean's Circle Award in 2020 for her contributions to the field of international education and to the mission of the Sanford School of Public Policy.
An enthusiast of community service she has served on the boards of the North Carolina chapter of Partners of the Americas, the North Carolina Peace Corps Association and the Blue Ridge School: an all-boys boarding school in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.