Meet Stephanie

Stephanie Spires is a mother, child advocate, and family life coach. She received her B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Kentucky, College of Education and completed her Family Life Coach coursework at North Carolina State University.  She founded Women Entrepreneur Lex, an organization that provides support to aspiring and established women business owners in Central Kentucky.  

Spires served on the Fayette County Public Schools Board of Education from 2017-2022. She was chair of the board from 2018-2021, leading the team through Covid and the unexpected death of the district's Superintendent. Before joining the board, she served as the Executive Director of Arbor Youth Services, Central Kentucky's only emergency children's shelter. In this role, she pushed city and school leaders to acknowledge and accurately count the number of homeless students in the district. In 2023, she returned to her role as the Executive Director at Arbor Youth Services. She has fostered over three dozen children and leads monthly training and support groups for foster and adoptive parents in Kentucky through the Adoption Support Kentucky program at the University of Kentucky. She has testified before the Kentucky General Assembly on several issues impacting Kentucky's children and developed a training for school board members across the state to understand how districts can support students experiencing homelessness and/or in foster care. 

When not working or advocating for others, she can be found chauffeuring her children to their social and extracurricular activities or with her head in a book.