Stephanie Jenkins has fifteen years of experience seeing documentary films from development to delivery. She has worked with Ken Burns and Florentine Films since 2010, and has contributed research to non-fiction media such as The New York Times Op-Docs “ENCORE” series, Radiolab, Spike Lee’s Forty Acres and a Mule Productions, as well as multiple independent films. In 2023, Stephanie co-founded the Archival Producers Alliance (APA), a nonprofit advocating for archival producers and establishing industry standards around the ethical use of synthetic media and generative AI in documentary. The APA is working closely with non-fiction mediamakers and archivists to protect the historic record in the age of Generative AI, including on a local television news preservation project. 

She is a Governor of the Television Academy’s Documentary Peer Group, and is an active member of multiple organizations, including the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) and Archivist Roundtable of New York (ART). 

She was in DOC NYC’s 2024-2025 class of New Leaders, is a Consulting Partner with History Studios, and was an Impact Partners Producing Fellow (2018-2019). In addition to her work in documentary film, Stephanie is a musician who is known for her clawhammer banjo playing. 

She has a B.A. from Cornell University, and lives with her husband in Hudson, NY.