Stephenie Foster is a founding partner of Smash Strategies, which provides strategic advice for effective and tranformational investments in women and girls. She has worked under the U.S. Department of State focusing on Afghan relocation with a mandate to prioritize the needs of women and girls, and from 2012–2017 as a Senior Advisor/Counselor in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues and at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She has also worked in private law practice, as a Chief of Staff to United States Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Chris Dodd (D-CT), and in senior management positions in the non-profit sector. She is the author of Take Action: Fighting for Women & Girls (2021) and (with Susan Markham) Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice (2023).