Stephanie A. Storer, MS Envr. Engr., MNA, PDC, IMN

Education and praxis of Integral Ecology, Urban Agriculture, Permaculture Design, Native and Invasive species management, Environmental Land Management, Ecological Land Development, Non-profit Management, Cooperative Economics, capture zone geometry 

Master of Science Environmental Engineering: University of Notre Dame 

Thesis Project: “Temporal Effects of Capture Zone Geometry in Fractured Rock in Benin, West Africa” 

Master of Non-profit Administration: University of Notre Dame 

Project Title: “Publications and Outreach Paths for Target Market Audiences for Red Cloud Indian School (Mahpiyal Luta Owayawa) Holy Rosary Jesuit Mission, Pine Ridge Reservation” 

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering: Villanova University 

Project Title: “Anaerobic Digester Design for CAFO Beef Cattle Farms” 

Permaculture Design Certificate: Oregon State University  

Project Title: Feasibility Assessments for Cultivated Food and Restored Natural Landscapes on the Campus of Holy Cross College: Notre Dame, Indiana” 

Indiana Master Naturalist 

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Guide Certification: Levels I, II, III 

Catechetical Leadership Certificate: Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana 

Professor Storer is an urban agriculture, integral ecology and permaculture design specialist who has worked in all levels of education for more than 20 years. As an engineer, her projects focused on environmental and hydrological concerns in rural America and Benin, West Africa and focused on community education on land use for groundwater protection.  She lived and worked on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for four years, where she worked on regenerative projects, such as reintroduction of buffalo herds, strawbale builds, and food production. 

Her current teaching focuses on integral ecology, food security, and regenerative agriculture. She participates in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Laudato Si Action Platform Committee, as well as the Diocesan Buildings and Grounds Committee as the Laudato Si representative. She has also worked in land development, environmental land management, native species restoration, and invasive species removal. 

In 2025, she participated in Laudato Si at 10 years: Africa Conference and Sowing Hope Ecological Pilgrimage, Bethany Land Institute, Uganda. 

Since 2012, she designed and maintains a polyculture urban homestead using regenerative growing methods for her family of 8, producing ~2,000lbs of food annually through the cultivation and care of gardens, orchards, and small livestock. Additionally, she is a Guide at all three levels of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and has taught in this program over ten years at multiple schools. In this methodology, she currently teaches second graders at St. Thomas More Academy in South Bend, IN. She is the Board Treasurer for the Catholic Worker Apostolate Our Lady of the Road, Inc. In South Bend, Indiana.

Member of the University of Notre Dame’s Sowing Hope Integral Ecology Working Group since its inception 

Appointed by Bishop Kevin Rhoades to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend’s Buildings and Grounds Committee and the Diocesan Laudato Si’ Action Platform Committee  

Member of the University of Notre Dame’s Sowing Hope Integral Ecology Working Group since its inception 

Land Management, Planning and Design Team, St. Thomas More Academy, South Bend, IN 

Regular participant in The Berry Center Farm & Forest Institute’s Agrarian Voices Study 

Past participant in University of Notre Dame’s Africa Working Group and Native American Intiative Working Group 

Common Good Course: Food, Justice and Regenerative Agriculture 

Co-Instructor, Tri-Campus (ND/HCC/SMC) Theology and Integral Ecology Course (2017-present)  

*Additional courses being conceived for expansion of the Integral Ecology program which has received a major gift for the next five years. 

Forthcoming co-authored chapter with her husband, Shawn Storer, in Sowing Hope: Journeys to Integral Ecology, edited by Emmanuel Katongole (Orbis Books, projected for 2027)  

Interviewed as one of four educational farmers in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education’s Growing Ecological Eaters: Food, Farming and Sustainability, an introduction to regenerative farming mini-series  

Featured farmer in the regional quarterly magazine Edible Michiana interviewed on embodying Laudato Si’  

Office: Vincent 184 

Email: [email protected]