Stephanie E. Turner

Vice President, Inclusion, Diversity and Social Innovation, The MITRE Corporation

Stephanie E. Turner is vice president of inclusion, diversity, and social innovation at MITRE. She works collaboratively to develop and drive an integrated inclusion and diversity strategy representing the other two functions she oversees—new employee experience and social innovation. 

Turner has served over 25 years championing inclusion and diversity and most recently served as vice president of diversity and inclusion, strategic engagement at Liberty Mutual Insurance. 

Her previous leadership roles include managing diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, and employee engagement at Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente, ESPN, and Motorola. Turner also worked in the oil industry as a marketing and diversity consultant.

She represents MITRE on the AMIE (Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering) board of directors and sits on the advisory board for Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership. Turner also sits on the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce board of directors. 

Turner earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Spelman College and a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.