Stephanie L. Lang

Stephanie L. Lang, whose family has lived in Central Texas for multiple generations, is a published writer and community curator who uses the power of storytelling to explore concepts of home and resistance. Previously, Ms. Lang worked for the John L Warfield Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Texas for over 15 years. In her position as Program Administrator, Ms. Lang created community-centered programming; that fostered relationships between the University and Austin community organizations. Currently, she is the Director of Equity and Community Advocacy for The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) in the Office of the Vice President in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2018, after the success of multiple community curatorial projects, Ms. Lang founded RECLAIM, an organization working to discover, recover, and ultimately showcase the narratives and histories of black people throughout the diaspora, and present these findings through an artistic and thought-provoking lens.