Stephanie Gilman is a mediator, trainer, and educator. In addition to her private practice, she has served as a volunteer mediator at the New York Peace Institute (NYPI) for the past fourteen years and has trained and coached mediators for NYPI, the Department of Education and the City University of New York. In addition to mediation, Stephanie is trained in Collaborative Problem Solving and Restorative Practices, both of which inform her work as a mediator. She served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York from 2022-2024.

Stephanie was the founder of CUNY (City University of New York) Freedom Prep, a college transition program for justice system impacted young people. She started at CUNY in 2013 as a Program Developer implementing college and career readiness programs at the Early College Initiative (ECI) and in 2017 became Senior Manager of Youth Development and School Culture for ECI. Prior to that, she was the NY Regional Manager for buildOn, a national nonprofit organization that provides urban teens with intensive local and global community service opportunities where she oversaw service, leadership development and education programs in 24 NYC public schools. From 2016-18 she taught at Rikers Island and Crossroads Juvenile Detention with Drama Club, an organization that provides theater programming to incarcerated young people.

She has presented on education for court-involved students at the 14th Annual CUNY Black Male Initiative Conference, and at the 2019 National Conference on Higher Education in Prison.  She was the co-founder and co-artistic director of Collision Theory, a non-profit theater company and she taught acting at the New Actors Workshop, Bard College, and New York University. Stephanie is a graduate of Oberlin College and the New Actors Workshop Conservatory and was a 2022 CUNY Transformative Learning in the Humanities Fellow.