Stephanie Koch is a researcher, facilitator, and curator based in Chicago, with roots in Tempe, Arizona. She engages in institution-building as a creative practice and views exhibition-making as a space for testing sociopolitical possibilities. Koch holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

In all her roles, she creates arts administrative structures designed to sustain creative practitioners—their lives, their research, and the communities they engage with. Currently, Stephanie is the Program Officer at Teiger Foundation, which supports curators in contemporary visual art. Previous roles include Interim Executive Director and Gallery Director of The Luminary, an art institution in St. Louis focused on art, thought, and action, and a Co-Founder of Annas, an independent art space in Chicago dedicated to the critical role of exhibiting process and collaboration. She is also a Lead Organizer of the Chicago Arts Census, a city-wide research project which collects, maps, and visualizes data that illuminates the lived experiences and working conditions of art workers in Chicago.