Newscasts -

VT Chocolate Factory Phone Banks for Sanders by Renee Wunderlich on NBC Channel 5 2016

Chocolatier’s Staff Reflects Culture of Inclusiveness by Abby Isaacs with Channel 5 NBC News

A Nutty Steph’s Morning on Local 44

Print Media -

Woman-owned Company Becomes Worker-Owned Coop, VermontBiz 2019

Chocolate Vulvas Support Planned Parenthood by Sally Pollack, Seven Days VT 2019

Vermont Baker and Chocolate Maker Team up to Make World’s Biggest S’more by Devin Bates

Massive S’mores Serves 500, Warms Hearts by Caleigh Cross, Waterbury Record 2018

This Land is Our Land: S. Jaquelyn Rieke and the Future of Onion River Campground by Brianna Stallings, The Montpelier Bridge 2017

Healthy Living Interview: 2017 Women in Business 

Enterprising Vermont Women Whip Up Chocolates by Michelle A.L. Singer, Vermont Woman Magazine 2017

Lobster Fest is Saturday in Plainfield by Sally Pollack, Burlington Free Press 2016

Culinary Adventures: Nutty Steph’s Granola Empire Born in Barrington Chicago Herald

Turning off the Heat at Bacon Thursday, Cooking up new Things by Sally Pollack, Burlington Free Press 2015

Nutty Steph Celebrates Ten Years by Alice Levitt, Seven Days 2013

Chocolate Shop Serves up Sweets, Drinks by Kristen Fountain, Stowe Today 2012

Nutty Stephs by Devin Bramhall, One New England 2012   Nutty Steph’s By Ruth Garbus 

Nutth Steph Launches Artist Colony by Mike Ives, Seven Days 2009

Nutty Steph’s Goes All Sweet by Stehen Pappas, Times Argus 2008

Nutty Steph’s Granola is a Growing Business by Spencer Smith, Times Argus 2005

Leadership

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

― Margaret Mead

  • Marshfield Town Budget Appropriations Committee

  • Director, The SWARM Pollinator Protector Alliance

  • Co-Founder, Public Banking Vermont

  • Director, Vermont Real Estate Cooperative

  • Treasurer, VT Solidarity Investment Club

  • Finance Team, Buffalo Mountain Cooperative

  • Student Business Mentor, U32 Pathways

  • Business Design Mentor, Univerity of Vermont

  • Student Mentor, Twinfield Together Mentorship Program

  • Director, Main Street Alliance

  • President, VT Specialty Food Association

Education

  • 2025 Facing Human Wrongs, UVIC

  • 2003 Accounting 101, 102, University of Maryland Baltimore

  • 2001 Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Carleton College

    Informal: Artist’s Way 12-week practice (twice), Presence Process 10-week practice (three times), Suiko McCall’s 100-Day Art Challenge (annually), Breathwave Level 1 Training, Neva Cockrell somatic alignment practices, Co-Lab intensive, multi-year collaborative management training with Round Sky Solutions, Earth Activist Training with Starhawk, RegenEarth sustainable development summit, Hanna Satire Body Blast