Stephanie Springer is the InternshiDirector and a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Public Applied Humanities. Since 2014, she has supported over 1600 University of Arizona students as they searched for, secured, and completed internships, locally and globally. From 2014-2019, her faculty appointment was in the UA’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. In 2019, she joined the College of Humanities to develothe PAH career readiness and internshiprogram. In addition to engaging students in career discovery through skill-building Applied Humanities core courses, Stephanie also enjoys teaching general education coursework. In 2022 and 2019, Stephanie was recognized as a finalist for the university-wide Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award for her excellence in teaching and engagement with undergraduate students. Stephanie is a UA alum, holding a master’s degree in public health and graduate certificates in college teaching and geographic information science. As an undergraduate student, she double majored in speech communication and anthropology at Kansas State University and also studied in Prague at Univerzita Karlova.