Stephan grew up in New Orleans, LA and has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and a Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Affairs, both from Louisiana State University. He has had the pleasure of living across the country–Montgomery, AL; Charleston, SC; Lafayette, LA; Coolidge, AZ (where he worked at Central Arizona College), Minneapolis, MN (where he worked at Augsburg University); Omaha, NE (where he worked at the University of Nebraska-Omaha); and now Boulder. He has worked in Student Affairs since 2013.
Some of his hobbies are karaoke, Dungeons and Dragons/Pathfinder and other tabletop role-playing games, and exploring cities.