Stephanie Vaughn

Stephanie Vaughn is a managing supervisor in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program, overseeing the investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of highly complex sites. For more than 20 years, Stephanie has worked actively with community members, local and state governments, federal partner agencies and private corporations with a goal of finding efficient and effective ways based on sound science to address risks to human health and the environment at sites throughout EPA Region 2, which includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Stephanie has a particular interest in helping restore the region’s waterways, which run through some of the most heavily industrialized and densely populated areas in the country, so that they may once again become treasured assets for the surrounding communities. She also enjoys engaging with students of all ages about environmental issues that are relevant to them and speaks regularly at schools in New York and New Jersey.

She holds a BS in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a MS degree in civil and environmental engineering from MIT, with a focus on hydrologic modeling. Stephanie lives with her family in New York City, where she was born and raised. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, cooking, traveling and otherwise getting out of the city as frequently as possible.