Our people Stephanie Vaughn

Stephanie Vaughn is the senior marketing manager for Voices for Healthy Kids. She served on the core team that designed and implemented the initiative, and currently oversees marketing, brand management, digital properties and promotion.

Before joining Voices for Healthy Kids, she served as the state advocacy project manager for the American Heart Association, where she led communications, grant writing and marketing across a portfolio of issues areas, including tobacco, quality systems of care, healthy eating, active living and access to care.

Prior to entering the nonprofit world, Stephanie worked in advertising and public relations in communication agencies in Sydney, Australia and Austin, Texas. Her clients included government agencies, food and beverage companies and education agencies.

Stephanie has a Bachelor of Science in public relations and Business Certification from the University of Texas, as well as a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Northeastern University. She currently serves as an adjunct professor and teaches communications at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she lives with her husband and two adorable, but demanding, chiweenies.