Upon matriculation from UNT, Stephon went on to pursue a Masters of Arts in Political Communication from the schools of Public Affairs and Communication at The American University. During his program, Stephon’s scholarship focused on the interaction between Black folks and the Body politic. He critically investigated the ways white supremacy is embedded into the core framework of American Democracy and Empire. While in graduate school Stephon worked as a communications and policy staffer in the United States House of Representatives. As a member of the inaugural Intern program for the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, chaired by Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida, Stephon’s primary responsibility was to gather a digital archive that illustrated the very real impact of the climate crisis on historically and systemically marginalized and disenfranchised communities. 

After leaving the Select Committee, Stephon became the Policy Clerk for the Health Subcommittee chaired by Rep. Julia Brownley of CA, of the Committee on Veterans Affairs chaired by Rep. Mark Takano of CA. During his time on the Committee, Stephon not only managed the logistical operation of the most active subcommittee, but also, held an expansive health portfolio that focused on Black and Indigenous Veterans, Deaf and hard-of-hearing Veterans, Women Veterans, and survivors of sexual violence. Prior to departing the Committee during the Uprisings of June 2020, Stephon coordinated committee hearings on expanding access to VA care for Native Veterans, increasing support for victims of gender-based violence, and a roundtable of the ongoing crisis of veterans dying by suicide.

Frustrated by the lack of adequate response by the U.S. government to not only address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that was ravaging Black and brown communities at extreme rates, but effectively end the systematic war on Black folks at the hands of white vigilantes and police forces across the nation, Stephon left government service in June 2020 after one year. Leaving Congress provided Stephon the opportunity to found We, Too, Are America, a non-profit organization dedicated to uplighting Black voices and empowering communities to fight for transformation. We, Too connected young people from around the country, across backgrounds, to embrace an anti-racist future rooted in the knowledge that America is, truly, for everyone. Upon critical reflection and self-study, Stephon realized the work of We, too was vital but it wasn’t doing the absolute necessary work of getting Black folks free. We, too, evolved into LifeWell. 

During his last year of graduate school, Stephon worked as a Graduate Assistant in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion where his passion for intellectual rigor, equity work, and radical anti-racist transformative pedagogy was realized. During his time as a graduate assistant, Stephon lead and co-facilitated over twenty workshops and trainings utilizing restorative justice practices, anti-racist curriculum, and grace. Stephon is a scholar of Black studies, literature, politics and critical thought. His Thesis, Black Witness: Remembrance and Remedy, was awarded a distinction for its commitment to archival integrity, storytelling, and its profound commitment to honoring Black witness.

Upon graduation, with honors, Stephon assumed the role of Assistant Director for Student Support, Transition, and Retention in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion. In this role he supports the Center for Diversity and Inclusion’s mission to advance American University's commitment to respecting and valuing diversity by serving as a resource and liaison for students, staff, and faculty on issues of equity through education, outreach, and advocacy. Importantly, Stephon coordinates and manages two cohort based programs that drive equity by allocating institutional, financial, and academic support to largely first-generation, Black and Brown students. He left his role in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion in October 2023. Stephon is also an adjunct instructor in the College of Education. Having taught three sections of a University Core class AuX 2, across an academic year, Stephon sees up close how important anti-racist, grace and loving kindness centered ethos are to the development of a healthy and transgressive learning environment. Stephon believes his role as an educator is to not make his students think a particular way, but to critically engage with what they're already thinking in route to their highest selves. Through a decolonial, womanist, anti-racist pedagogy, Stephon invites his students to assume their mantle as community-change agents. 

Undergirding all of his work is a deep calling by the divine, Holy Spirit. As a writer and Registered Yoga Alliance teacher, Stephon is trying to get people free, in-touch with the Holy of Holies deeply rooted inside all of us. It is through a spiritual revival, Stephon belevies, we can destroy this world, learn from the rubble, and build anew. 

"The point of this practice—life and living— is to get us free; and we cannot be free, healed, or whole, by ourselves or disembodied. Here now we go to build a world where other people can get free.”