Stephanie is a beloved teacher and mentor who has worked extensively as a teacher of children, university students, educators, leaders, community groups, and individual clients. Her work as an educational researcher and scholar of justice-focused teaching and holistic wellness combines in a unique way to offer creative, healing, and inspirational personal and professional learning and growth.
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, trauma, 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, a certified Yoga Instructor with specialties in Yin and Restorative Yoga, and a certified Sylvotherapist for guiding people in forest-based exploration and healing. Stephanie is also a former elementary teacher who has been working with PK-University children, youth, adults, and educators for 30 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, yoga, forest bathing, or hanging out with her family and animals, she is probably creating new courses, workshops, and sessions for students, clients, and to keep pushing herself beyond her boundaries.
Integrating academic scholarship, education, energy work, meditation, ethics and 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.