Stephanie is a beloved teacher and mentor who has worked extensively as a teacher, teacher educator, education consultant, and with individual clients, small meditation groups, public schools, universities, and non-profit organizations.
Dr. Stephanie Jones
Stephanie is a professor of education and gender and women’s studies at the University of Georgia, and a researcher who studies the body, learning, literacy education, poverty and education, bodies-sex-relationship education, power, and ways of creating learning spaces across the lifespan that allow us all to be the best versions of ourselves in our communities and lives.
Stephanie is a certified Usui and Holy Fire Reiki Master Teacher and Affiliate Member of the International Center for Reiki Training who is also a former elementary teacher who has been working with PK-University children, youth, adults, and educators for 25 years. She is an award-winning researcher and distinguished professor at the University of Georgia and was a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University before making her move to Athens, Georgia. Stephanie has been the co-director of the inspirational Red Clay Writing Project at UGA since 2009 and when she isn’t teaching, writing, doing Reiki, or hanging out with her family and animals, she is probably walking in the woods or paddleboarding on a lake.
Integrating academic scholarship, education, energy work, meditation, social justice, and healing is one of Stephanie’s unique contributions. You can find some of her writing in these various places: academic research published as journal articles, book chapters, or newspaper editorials; writing on mindfulness and nature; and an archived blog that lived nearly a decade in the heyday of blogging.
Stephanie’s home base is in Georgia, and also spends a lot of time in Washington State and Ohio. She is available and loves to travel wherever she can to support people doing powerful work.