Stephanie Strategos Polis

Stephanie is the Vice President of Communications for the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), which represents the entire plastics supply chain, and nearly one million workers in the $468 billion U.S. Plastics Industry. She previously served as the Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

Stephanie has over two decades of communications, strategic and public affairs experience within the private sector, in the non-profit arena and at both the state and federal levels of government. Steph has worked on Capitol Hill as the Public Affairs Liaison for the U.S. Congressional Budget Committee, as a Presidential Appointee at the United States Department of Labor as public liaison for the Office of the Secretary, Director of Federal Affairs for the United States Chamber of Commerce and as a fundraiser both in the political and not-for-profit sectors.

Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a Degree in behavioral science and law and attended through the U.W. school of music as a full opera performance scholar.  In 2019 Stephanie completed a Washington D.C. Buckley to Burke regional fellowship for the National Review Institute and in 2022 she received professional certification through Cornell University in Public Relations and Crisis Communications. She resides in Bethesda, Maryland with her three young sons.