Stacey Stevens

Executive Director, Employer Connections & Alumni Career Engagement

Stacey leads our Student Employment program to offer enhanced service to both students and their supervisors. She develops and implements strategy for Student Employment at DU, while managing its functions, including training supervisors to provide excellent employment experiences. Our goal is to provide equitable, meaningful learning opportunities for all student employees and to prepare them for successful employment after DU. With this in mind, all training topics and processes emphasize the intersection of diversity, equity & inclusion and career development.

Prior to this position, Stacey worked as a career coach & advisor to students and managed departmental student employee programs. She has worked in both corporate recruiting, training and development, and higher education. She earned her BA in Sociology from the University of California San Diego and her MA in Higher Education from the University of Denver. Outside of work, she enjoys bike touring with her partner, rock climbing, comedy, and spending time with her dogs, Walle and Tiny.

“I was born to color.” – her 6-year-old niece.

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Combating “All or Nothing” Thinking Through the Job Search Process

Combating “All or Nothing” Thinking Through the Job Search Process
written by Career Peer Advisor, Alyssa Bekerman

Are you a graduating student who’s thinking something like “I’ll never find a job,” “I have no experience,” or “I need to have …

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How to Cultivate Empathy in the Workplace in Difficult Times

When empathy is part of a workplace culture, employees are happier and more productive, leading to greater success all around. And while difficult circumstances require more empathy than usual, they also make it easy for this crucial skill to get …

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Summer Internship Award Program Recipient Spotlight: Grace Williams – US Embassy in the Philippines

Grace Williams is a senior at DU studying International Studies and International Business. Through the Summer Internship Award Program, which provides funding for unpaid internships, Grace interned last summer with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines  as a Public Diplomacy …

By Stacey Stevens
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A Guide to Using Pronouns and Other Gender-Inclusive Language in the Office

Picture this: You’re gathered around the coffee machine one morning with a group of your co-workers when Joe says, “You guys missed a great story Robin told while we were manning the conference booth yesterday. No seriously, dude, she’s so …

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Great Students Don’t Necessarily Make Great Employees—Here’s Why

Katie Parrott’s college career advisor used to put her in the category of “ostrich person.” The term was reserved, she recalls, for students who’d “stick their head in the sand and pretend that school was never going to end.”

In …

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