Steph Hankinson is tenured faculty in Humanities, Drama, and English at South Seattle College. She teaches a wide range of courses on global/US film, intercultural communication, performance studies, interdisciplinary Humanities, as well as the full suite of English composition courses.

Steph is the Director of Events for The Contentment Foundation, a founding member and contributing author to the performance critique collective: DeConstruct, and co-founder of the Artist as Storyteller speaker series.

While teaching, creating, and project managing she is dedicated to fostering community and expanding capacities to create social, cultural, and political equity.