Stephanie Lillegard

Stephanie Lillegard is portfolio director of Winrock’s Human Rights & Empowerment team. During more than a decade with Winrock, she directly supported the expansion of the organization’s counter-trafficking in persons (CTIP) work, positioning Winrock to build what is now one of the largest CTIP and safe migration portfolios in the nonprofit sector. She has led dozens of proposals that enabled Winrock to establish CTIP programs in new regions, helped develop relationships with new funders while strengthening existing ones with stakeholders and partners, and provided direct program management support to nearly all of Winrock’s CTIP projects. Lillegard served as Winrock’s first project director for the Jamaica-U.S. CPC project, where she worked closely with government counterparts to strengthen capacity and coordination for responding to child trafficking, including drafting Jamaica’s National Referral Mechanism for child trafficking. She holds a bachelor’s in political science and French from Greensboro College and a master’s in international development from the University of Pittsburgh. Lillegard lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area.