Stephanie Hawke is the Associate Research Director of Land Use and Supply at the Terner Center. Her work focuses on the intersection of housing policy and racial and economic equity across levels of governance.

Prior to joining the Terner Center, Stephanie was an economist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where she worked on housing finance models for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) program and helped evaluate policies aimed at balancing credit access with risk.

She has also held research roles in tech, academia, and local government, bringing a cross-sector lens to housing policy questions. Her past work includes mixed-methods studies of manufactured housing policy, landlord self-selection, and place-based barriers to homeownership.

Stephanie holds a PhD in Public Affairs and Policy from Portland State University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis.